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
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1853 - 610 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...carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has eaid, — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago, — That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 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 be bad a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In tbe snow. But now bis nose is tbin, And... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 518 pages
...Departed Days. Sept. — VOL. XCIX. HO. CCCZCIII. G 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 i in• tomb. My grandmamma has said, — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago, — That he had a Roman... | |
| 1853 - 1042 pages
...totters o'er the ground, With his cane. * * * » 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 half a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said, — 'Poor lady she is dead Long ago ; That he had... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1854 - 452 pages
...That it seems as if he said, ' They are gone.' The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." Dr. Holmes has been likened to Thomas Hood ; but there is little in common between them save the power... | |
| Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - American literature - 1854 - 268 pages
...head, That it seems as if he said, They are gone. " The mossy marbles rat On the lips that he hasprest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a yew On the tomb. " My grandmamma has said, — Poor old lady she is dead Long ago,— That he had a... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1855 - 474 pages
...That it seems as if he said, " They are pone." The mo-sy mnrble« rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom. And the names he loved to hear Have...carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma ha« мЫ,— Poor »Id lady, she is dead That ho had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In... | |
| 1855 - 1428 pages
...That It seems an Sf he said " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he had pressed in their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My cninihnamiaa h« said,— Poor old lady, she is dead Long RJ?O, — That lie luula Kmumi norf, And... | |
| Ireland - 1855 - 1416 pages
...That it seems as if he said " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he hud pressed In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year Ou the tomb. My grandmamma has said,— Poor old ludy, she ia dead Long ajjo, — That he had a Itoraan... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 418 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." "The passion for crowds," says Charles Lamb, "is no where feasted so full as in London. The man must... | |
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