 | Park Benjamin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Osborne Sargent - 1833 - 114 pages
...pressed .In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady — she is dead Long ago; That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff,... | |
 | 1836 - 268 pages
...bloom, ' And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.. My grandmama has said — Poor old lady— she is dead Long ago; That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was Eke a rose In the snow. But now his tfose is thin, And it rests upon his- chin Like a staff,... | |
 | 1836 - 694 pages
...bloom, And the names lie loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. "My grand mama has said — Poor old lady — she is dead Long ago ; That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. " But now his nose is thin. And it rests upon his chin Like a stall',... | |
 | 1836 - 706 pages
...bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb ! 4 My grand roam a has said — Poor old lady — she is dead Long ago ; That he hada Roman none, And his cheek was like a rose In tbe snow. ' But now his nose is thin, And it rests... | |
 | 1839 - 204 pages
...prest In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. "My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is...dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. " But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff;... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1839 - 368 pages
...of show. Is the poem whence the following verьes are extracted an honest selection ? My grandmama has said — Poor old lady ; she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose III tiit- зiWW.' I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 304 pages
...their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmama has said — Poor old lady ; she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. 136 THE LAST LEAF. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 300 pages
...their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmama has said — Poor old lady; she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff,... | |
 | 1841 - 376 pages
...pressed In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ; she is...dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was liie a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...press'd In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is...dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. And now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff,... | |
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But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. 
