| Park Benjamin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Osborne Sargent - Gift books - 1833 - 114 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 has said — Poor old lady — she is dead Long ago;... | |
| Periodicals - 1836 - 706 pages
...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... | |
| American poetry - 1836 - 268 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 grandmama has said — Poor old lady— she is dead Long ago;... | |
| 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 - English literature - 1895 - 634 pages
...'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...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... | |
| Animals - 1839 - 204 pages
...meets 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 prest...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... | |
| John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 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 grandmama has said — Poor old lady ; she is dead Long ago... | |
| John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 300 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 grandmama has said — Poor old lady; she is dead Long ago —... | |
| American ballads and songs - 1841 - 376 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 has said — Poor old lady ; she is dead Long ago... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...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... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1895 - 674 pages
...primarily pathetic but humorous, yet the stanza, " 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," brings a lump into the throat and a dimming of the eyes, no matter... | |
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