 | 1878 - 484 pages
...— 726. " A Stranger in these Parts." GEORGE AIKMAN. f. No. 728. 728. AS BOYD. ' ' The mossy marbtes rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom...names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a ye.ir On the tomb.'" Next is a small landscape— 729. " A Highland Ferry." ADA M. BARCLAY ; and on... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1878 - 708 pages
...seems as if he paid, "They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In (heir 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... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom; And the names ho 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 Lie... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 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...names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a yeat On the tomb. ' My grandmamma has said, — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago,— That he had... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 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...names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a yeat On the tomb. J My grandmamma has said, — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago,— That he had... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...seems as if he said, " They are gone." 4. The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed K 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 — ?s Poor old lady she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - 1912 - 548 pages
...its prevention, considering the old doctor, "The mossy marbles rest O'er the lips that he had pressed In their bloom And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." Many of his patients of the past are dead, and some lately living are in their graves or in insane... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...it .stems us if he said, "They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed lu " P My grandmnmma has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 410 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 his... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1895 - 672 pages
...primarily pathetic but humorous, yet the stanza, " 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," brings a lump into the throat and a dimming of the eves, no matter how often one repeat the lines.... | |
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In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. 
