 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
 | 1857 - 986 pages
...That it seems as if be said " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he had preened In their bloom. And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomh. My grandmamma has said, — Poor old lady, ehe is dead Long ago,— That he had a Itoman nose,... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1857 - 904 pages
...flowers away. THE many marbles rest, On the lips that I have pressed In their bloom : And the names I loved to hear, Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. THE WIFE OF CALVIN. IDELETTE DE BCRE, may be a new name even to well informed theologians, who have... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 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...— That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a n»f In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 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...grandmamma has said, — Poor old lady, she is dead That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 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...his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a stafl^ And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is a sin For me to... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1859 - 422 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,— 'Wan (win), pale and sickly.—'Mar'bles, tombstones.—'Bloom youth.—'C&rved, sculptured ; cut out.... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1860 - 372 pages
...press'd In their bloom'; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb\ 5. My grandmamma has said— Poor old lady'! she is dead...nose', And his cheek was like a rose In the snow\ 6. And now his nose is thin', And it rests upon his chin Like a stan"; And a crook is in his back',... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1860 - 368 pages
...it 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 year On the tomb\ 5. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady' ! she is dead Long ago' — That he had a Roman nose',... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 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...is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff; 49 •=* ••: -, .- .. " a te\\ The birds, that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. When flowing... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1861 - 304 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...a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the $now. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back.... | |
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