 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1860 - 368 pages
...said', " They are goneV 4. The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has press'd 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 — Poor old lady' ! she is dead Long ago' — That he had a Roman nose',... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
...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...is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff; 49 •=* ••: -, .- .. " a te\\ The birds, that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. When flowing... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1861 - 304 pages
...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...a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the $now. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back.... | |
 | Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 844 pages
...grandmamma has said — I'oor old In.ly. she is dead Lonr auu — That be had л 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 naff And a crook is in his bock, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is • sin For me to... | |
 | Old age in literature - 1861 - 144 pages
...that he has presied In their bloom ; And the names ho loved to hear Have been carved for many a year My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman noso, And his check was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers, American - 1861 - 446 pages
...(won), pale and sickly. — 'Mar'bles, tombstones. — 'Bloom Youth. — 'C&rved, sculptured ; cutout. That he had a Roman' nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. 6. But riow his nose is thin, • And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back,... | |
 | James Fleming - 1863 - 404 pages
...They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the na^jies he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year...lady, she is dead Long ago,— That he had a Roman uose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 368 pages
...said', " They are goneV 4. The mossy marbles rest * On the lips that he has press'd In their bloom' ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a yeai On the tomb'. . 5. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady' ! she is dead Long ago* — That... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American poetry - 1864 - 444 pages
...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. That he had a Roman nose, And his check was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And... | |
 | Albert Rhodes - Jerusalem - 1865 - 492 pages
...his mind when he wrote : " And 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." A few yards from the Zion Gate, and as many rods east of the Coenaculum, stands the town-house of Caiaphas,... | |
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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. 
