 | 1900 - 1050 páginas
...be well done, You must do it yourself." — Longfellow : The Courtship of Miles Standish, I. 114. " And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree." — Holmes : The Last Leaf, I. 43. " And say it won't stir, save the wheel be well wet afore." —Lowell:... | |
 | Poetic reader - 1881 - 252 páginas
...grin At him here, But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that — Are so queer ! And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the...I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. THE DOOM OF THE PRINTER. A PRINTER weary and wan, His face all mortally pale,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 páginas
...grin At him here, But the old three-corner'd hat, And the breeches, — -and all that, Are so queer 1 l take The crested basilisk and speckled snake —...scales survey, And with their forky tongue shall innoce OLIVKE WEXDELL HOLMES. ODE ON SOLITUDE. HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 410 páginas
...and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer ! And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the...I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling. THE CAMBRIDGE CHURCHYARD. OUR ancient church ! its lowly tower, Beneath the loftier spire, Is shadowed... | |
 | 1881 - 408 páginas
...Leaf" writing of himself as if he had already reached the period of which he speaks in (he verse : 11 And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the...spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken hough Where I cling." Spain and the Spaniards. Front the Boston Gazette. "Spain and the Spaniards,"... | |
 | William Swinton - 1882 - 686 páginas
...grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer ! 8. And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the...I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling. ALFRED TENNYSON. 1810. CHARACTERIZATION BY BAYARD TAYLOR. i. No English poet, with the possible exception... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - 1882 - 420 páginas
...three-cornered hat, And the breeches, — and all that, Are so queer! And if I should live to be The last loaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling1. THANATOPSIS. To him who, in the love of Nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 páginas
...grin At him here, But the old three-cornered hat. And the breeches, — and all that, Are so queer ! And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the...I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling. JOHN JANKIN'S SERMON. SHE minister said last night, says he, " Don't be afraid of givin' ; If your... | |
 | 1883 - 700 páginas
...prest In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. If I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree...I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling. Not long ago, I sat by the side of an old man, " he but for whose life I had not been." 1 looked into... | |
 | 1890 - 726 páginas
...grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer ! " And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the...do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling." It is the pathos of these last lines that makes the richness of the humor, a pathos that is deep and... | |
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And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree • In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling. 
