 | Park Benjamin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Osborne Sargent - 1833 - 114 pages
...By the Crier on his round But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn As he shakes his feeble head That it seems as if he said,...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.... | |
 | 1836 - 268 pages
...his round Through the town. \ But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn, And he shakes his feeble head That it seems as if...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..... | |
 | 1836 - 694 pages
...his round Through the town. " But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn, And he shakes his feeble head That it seems as if...gone.' " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom, And the names lie loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.... | |
 | 1836 - 418 pages
...the above beautiful poem, that the same pen could trace the following, speaking of an old man — " My grandmamma has said, — Poor old lady, she is...dead, Long ago,— That he had a Roman nose, And his check was like a rose In the snow. " But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff,... | |
 | 1836 - 706 pages
...streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn, And he shakes his feeble head That it seems as if ho said, 'They are gone." ' The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prosied In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 634 pages
...'The Last Leaf,' which Poe copied in his own handwriting and Abraham Lincoln was fond of quoting : ' The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." Since that time other works in prose and verse have poured from his pen, till his name as an essayist,... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 302 pages
...his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn; And he shakes his feeble head That it seems as if...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.... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 304 pages
...his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn ; And he shakes his feeble head That it seems as if...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.... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 300 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. My grandmama has said — Poor old lady; she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek... | |
 | 1841 - 376 pages
...his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn ; And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if...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.... | |
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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. 
