 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 750 páginas
...favorite. The following-verse he regarded as equal to anything in the language : " The mossy marble rests On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom, And...hear, Have been carved for many a year, On the tomb." • He made a speech at a Burns'Festival, in which he spoke at length of Burns' poems; illustrating... | |
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 páginas
...of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was foVind By the Crier on his round Through, the town. And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he...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.... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 804 páginas
...following-verse he regarded as equal to anything in the language : " The mossy marble rests On the Hps that lie has pressed In their bloom, And the names he loved...( Have been carved for many a year, On the tomb." * He made a speech at a Burns'Festival, in which he spoke at length of Burns' poems; illustrating what... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 748 páginas
...favorite. The following-verse he regarded as equal to anything in the language : " The mossy marble rests On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear, Hove been carved for many a year, On the tomb." * He made a speech at a Burns'Festival, in which he... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 524 páginas
...Holmes, entitled ' The Last Leaf,' one of which is to me inexpressibly touching." Ho then repeated, — " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." He then added, "For pure pathos, in my judgment, there is nothing finer than these six lines in the... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 510 páginas
...and these were invariably of the highest literary and moral excellence. " The mossy marbles rest i On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom ; And...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." He then added, " For pure pathos, in my judgment, there is nothing finer than these-six lines in the... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Thurston - 1866 - 320 páginas
...the crier on his round 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...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.... | |
 | Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1867 - 208 páginas
...once repeated to Mr. Carpenter these lines from Holmes' "Last Leaf," as "inexpressibly touching:" " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom ; And the names he leved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the- tomb." And he added, " For pure pathos, in my... | |
 | John Mitchell Bonnell - 1867 - 372 páginas
...271" The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has press'd In their bloom ;215 And the names he lov'd to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. 2 271" My grandmama has said — 259 Poor old lady !5 she is dead Long ago — 259 That he had a Roman... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 páginas
...the last reader reads no more. The Last Reader. 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 Leaf. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat,... | |
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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. 
