 | Gleanings - 1882 - 692 páginas
...feeble head. That it seenih as if he haid, " They arc gone ! " The mossy marblus rest On the li|>.s that he has pressed In their bloom ; And the names...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma ha» «aid, — Poor old lady ! übe is dead Long ago, -- That he had a Roman noee, And... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 páginas
...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 hia... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 páginas
...three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that. Are so queer! ' l And near it, this perfect pearl: 'The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for Diany a year On the tomb.'' Or: 'Come, dear old comrade, you and I Will steal an hour from days gone... | |
 | 1883 - 700 páginas
...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. If I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the... | |
 | William Sloane Kennedy - 1883 - 374 páginas
...as he finished this much admired stanza, — " 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," — he said: " For pure pathos, in my judgment, there is nothing finer than those six lines in the... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 páginas
...3317 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iU. Line 339. The mossy marbles rest Ou 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. 3318 Oliver Wendell Holmes : The Last Le.nj MOON — see Honeymoon, Night. The chariest maid is prodigal... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...vigil OU the green. The Cambridge Churchyard. 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. The Last Lea/. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat,... | |
 | James Cephas Derby - 1884 - 838 páginas
...from memory the verse which occurs in about the middle of the poem, which reads as follows : " The mossy marbles rest, On the lips that he has pressed,...finer than those six lines in the English language." And I think President Lincoln's judgment coincides with that of all readers of that exquisite lyric.... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 430 páginas
...sleep." Elizabeth Barrett Browning. THE LAST LEAF. 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. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809- — — THE SABBATH. Vis, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure,... | |
 | 1890 - 726 páginas
...from memory, and as he finished the lines, — " 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." — he said, " For pure pathos, in my judgment, there is nothing finer than those six lines in the... | |
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In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. 
