 And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.  Days with Uncle Jack - Page 142by John Walter Davis - 1914Full view - About this book
 | Old age in literature - 1861 - 144 pages
...that he has presied In their bloom ; And the names ho loved to hear Have been carved for many a year My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman noso, And his check was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin... | |
 | Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 844 pages
...That it seem» as if he said, "They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom. And the names he loved to hear Have been raircd fur many a year Ou the tomb. My grandmamma has said — I'oor old In.ly. she is dead Lonr auu... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers, American - 1861 - 446 pages
...In their bloom,3 And the names he loved to hear Have been carved"1 for many a year On the tomb. 5. My grandmamma has said, — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago,— 1Wan (won), pale and sickly. — 'Mar'bles, tombstones. — 'Bloom Youth. — 'C&rved, sculptured ;... | |
 | James Fleming - 1863 - 404 pages
...They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the na^jies he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year...lady, she is dead Long ago,— That he had a Roman uose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 368 pages
...seems as if he said', " They are goneV 4. The mossy marbles rest * On the lips that he has press'd In their bloom' ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a yeai On the tomb'. . 5. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady' ! she is dead Long ago* — That... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American poetry - 1864 - 444 pages
...That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. That he had a Roman nose, And his check was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And... | |
 | Albert Rhodes - Jerusalem - 1865 - 492 pages
...such an one in his mind when he wrote : " And the mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." A few yards from the Zion Gate, and as many rods east of the Coenaculum, stands the town-house of Caiaphas,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...about the middle of the poem, and is this : — "The moesy marbles rest On the lips that he haa pressed In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." As he finished this verse he said, in his emphatic way: "For pure pathos, in my judgment, there is... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...poem, and is this : — "The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom, And tho names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." As he finished this verse he said, in his emphatic way : " For pure pathos, in my judgment, there is... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...is this : — "The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom, And the nsmes he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." As ho finished this verse he said, in his emphatic way: "For pure pathos, in ray judgment, there is... | |
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