 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.  Patchwork - Page 45by Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 234 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1871 - 476 pages
...pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round • Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks...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.... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - English poetry - 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...the pruning-knife of time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through d owns his cottage with a smile. My soul, turn So forlorn ; And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1872 - 248 pages
...the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks...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... | |
 | American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...pruning-knife of Time Cut hiiti down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks...names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. That ho had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his... | |
 | Anthologies - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1873 - 348 pages
...better man — was found — by the crier— on his round thro' the town. But now — he walks th' streets, — and he looks at all he meets, sad— and wan, — And he shakes — his feeble head, — th't it seems— as if he said, — ("They are gone!") Th' mossy marbles — rest — on th' lips... | |
 | London Mayfair - 1874 - 468 pages
...him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. 146 THE LAST LEAF. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all...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... | |
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