 | 1836 - 268 páginas
...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 he said,...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 cheek... | |
 | 1836 - 694 páginas
...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 he said,...that he has pressed In their bloom, And the names lie loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. "My grand mama has said — Poor old... | |
 | 1836 - 706 páginas
...streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn, And he shakes his feeble head 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... | |
 | 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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 he...' " 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.... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 300 páginas
...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 he said...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 cheek... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 304 páginas
...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 he said...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 cheek... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 páginas
...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 he...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.... | |
 | Life - 1844 - 308 páginas
...began. CHAPTER VII. FATHER POWER'S STORY. " The mossy marbles rest, On lips that he hath pre«fr la their bloom : And the names he loved to hear, Have been carved for many a year, On the tomb." " You will not be scandalized dear friends, at my devotion towards this poor relic of departed excellence.... | |
 | 1848 - 276 páginas
...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 he said,...he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year My grandmama has said— Poor old lady—she is dead Long ago; That he had a Roman none, And his cheek... | |
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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. 
