 | William Haig Miller - 1884 - 216 páginas
...man sees a domestic paradise blighted, because " 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." Accident will sometimes, as Mr. Carlyle says, cause a thunderbolt to fall out of a blue sky, wrecking... | |
 | William Linn Keese - 1885 - 292 páginas
..." is the refrain of human memory. How beautifully Holmes expresses it in " The Last Leaf " : " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed,...hear, Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." The years of the Chambers Street Theatre were fruitful in dramatic events. We have already mentioned... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 páginas
...Sad and wan ; 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...loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.2 My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose,... | |
 | John George Repplier McElroy - 1885 - 362 páginas
...same short poem 2 the two following stanzas ;— "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. " I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches,... | |
 | 1885 - 482 páginas
...the old man, for whom all such joy is past. " 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 sorrow which proceeds from external circumstances finds ready sympathy in young minds, for they... | |
 | 1886 - 548 páginas
...verse he referred to occurs in about the middle of the poem, and is this : " The mossy marbles reel On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom, And...finer than those six lines in the English language." A day or two afterward he asked me to accompany him to the temporary studio, at the Treasury Department,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 páginas
...Sad and wan ; 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 !" fancy and sentiment with grotesque drollery and humor. Hood, under all his whims and oddities, conceals... | |
 | 1886 - 552 páginas
...meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, And it seems as if he said, "They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year Ou the tomb. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman... | |
 | 1909 - 680 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. 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 páginas
...is life itself. Kven 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 eves, 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. 
