| Richard Green Parker - 1870 - 444 pages
...he said, "They are gone." 4. The mossy marbles * rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom,4 And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. 6. My grandmamma has said, — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago,— * A la mode, according to the... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed e, When, thanks to God, your low, sweet " Yes " made you my loving wife ! Your heart will say My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And*... | |
| Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 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 grandmamma lias said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1872 - 248 pages
...he meets Sad and wan, 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...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... | |
| Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...meets, Sad and wan ; 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...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. That ho had a Roman nose, And his chock was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose U thin, And it... | |
| Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 pages
...touching." This verse we give the reader : — " 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." Mr. Lincoln frequently said that he lived by his humor, and would have died without it. His manner... | |
| 1872 - 588 pages
...happiness be for the lonely centenarian — " When 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 ?" As he looks on life's busy whirl, so changeless in its activity, its energy, and its vigour, yet... | |
| Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1872 - 370 pages
...the middle of the poem, and is this : — " 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." As he finished this verse, he said, in his emphatic way, " For pure pathos, m my judgment, there is... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...said, " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom ; ¿nd My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1873 - 348 pages
...gone!") Th' mossy marbles — rest — on th' lips — th't he has pressed — in their bloom, And th' names — he loved — to hear — have been carved — for many a year on th' tomb. My grandmamma — has said — (poor old lady — she is dead — long ago) — That he had... | |
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