 | Park Benjamin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Osborne Sargent - 1833 - 114 pàgines
...By the Crier on his round But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn As he shakes his feeble head That it seems as if he said,...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.... | |
 | 1836 - 268 pàgines
...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...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..... | |
 | 1836 - 694 pàgines
...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...gone.' " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom, And the names lie loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.... | |
 | 1836 - 706 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | 1836 - 418 pàgines
...the above beautiful poem, that the same pen could trace the following, speaking of an old man — " My grandmamma has said, — Poor old lady, she is...dead, Long ago,— That he had a 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 staff,... | |
 | 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 pàgines
...'The Last Leaf,' which Poe copied in his own handwriting and Abraham Lincoln was fond of quoting : ' The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest...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 pàgines
...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...— That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. " But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff; And a crook... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1839 - 368 pàgines
...of show. Is the poem whence the following verьes are extracted an honest selection ? My grandmama has said — Poor old lady ; she is dead Long ago...— That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose III tiit- зiWW.' I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 302 pàgines
...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...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.... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 304 pàgines
...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...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.... | |
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My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. 
