 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - 436 pages
...his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head. That it seems as if...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. That he had a Roman nose, And his check was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And... | |
 | 1875 - 432 pages
...he shakes his feeble head, That it scums as if he said, " They are gone ! " The mossy marbles rest i On the lips that he has prest In their bloom ; And...has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago — 76 That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...God of storms, The lightning and the gale. Ibid. When the last reader reads no more. The Last Reader. The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. The Last Leaf. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat,... | |
 | Charles Henry Jones - 1876 - 424 pages
...his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if...has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago— THE LAST LEAF. That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose... | |
 | 1876 - 508 pages
...his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets. And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, 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.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 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 he said, " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 pages
...town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn ; And he shakes his feeHo head, 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.... | |
 | 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...is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And Lie cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a... | |
 | 1896 - 414 pages
...with modest grace and gentle humor: "But now he walks streets And looks at all he meets Sad and wan ; 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 i" Have been carried for many a year, On... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
