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" In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Poet, Littérateur, Scientist - Page 111
by William Sloane Kennedy - 1883 - 356 pages
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National Fourth Reader: Containing a Simple, Comprehensive and Practical ...

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...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

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*...
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Our Poetical Favorites: A Selection from the Best Minor Poems of the English ...

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...
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Wit and humour, poems, with an intr. [by J.C. Hotten].

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...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

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...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln: From His Birth to His Inauguration as ..., Volume 2

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...
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The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 1

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...
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The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House

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...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

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...
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Manual of Elocution: Embracing the Philosophy of Vocalization...

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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