 | 1875 - 432 páginas
...Cut him down, THE LAST LEAF. Not a belter man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all...! " 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 - 1875 - 436 páginas
...pruning-knifc of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all...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.... | |
 | 1876 - 508 páginas
...pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets. And he looks at all...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... | |
 | Charles Henry Jones - 1876 - 424 páginas
...Cut him down, THE LAST LEAF. Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all...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.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 páginas
...town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn ; And he shakes his feeHo head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone."...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... | |
 | 1896 - 414 páginas
...done before, upon such occasions, with modest grace and gentle humor: "But now he walks streets And looks at all he meets Sad and wan ; And he shakes...' In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear i" Have been carried for many a year, On the tomb. And if I should live to be The last leaf on the... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 páginas
...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...that he has pressed In their bloom; And the names ho loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said — Poor old... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 páginas
...pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Thro' the town. ' But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all...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 yeat On the tomb.... | |
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Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his 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 said, "They... 
