 | Park Benjamin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Osborne Sargent - 1833 - 114 sayfa
...he meets So forlorn As 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 pressed...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... | |
 | 1836 - 268 sayfa
...meets So forlorn, 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 pressed...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.. My grandmama has said — Poor old lady— she is dead Long ago; That he had a Roman nose, And his... | |
 | 1836 - 706 sayfa
...That it seems as if ho said, 'They are gone." ' The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prosied In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb ! 4 My grand roam a has said — Poor old lady — she is dead Long ago ; That he hada Roman none,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 634 sayfa
...handwriting and Abraham Lincoln was fond of quoting : ' 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." Since that time other works in prose and verse have poured from his pen, till his name as an essayist,... | |
 | 1839 - 204 sayfa
...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. "My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 304 sayfa
...he meets So forlorn ; 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 pressed...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmama has said — Poor old lady ; she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 300 sayfa
...meets So forlorn ; 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 pressed...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmama has said — Poor old lady; she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his... | |
 | 1841 - 376 sayfa
...meets So forlorn ; 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 pressed...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 sayfa
...That it seems as if he said, "They are gone." 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. 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 sayfa
...is life itself. Even his " Last Leaf " is not primarily pathetic but humorous, yet the stanza, " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb," brings a lump into the throat and a dimming of the eyes, 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. 
