I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his... The Little Book of American Poets, 1787-1900 - Página 56editado por - 1915 - 306 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1853 - 458 páginas
...resound As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime Ere the pruning-knife of time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By...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, " They are gone." The mossy... | |
| 1853 - 538 páginas
...shrivelled weakness of the decrepit man with the wellvouched tradition of his past comeliness and vigour : But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all...head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." * Pittsfleld Cemetery. f An Evening Thought. t Departed Days. Sept. — VOL. XCLX. wo. cccxcui. G The... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1854 - 452 páginas
...smiles. Who does not feel the power of this simple picture of the old man in the last-mentioned poem ? " But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all...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."... | |
| Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - 1854 - 268 páginas
...resound As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. " They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By...town. " But now he walks the streets, And he looks on all he meets Sad and wan ; And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, They are... | |
| 1855 - 1416 páginas
...They suy that in his prime, Kre the pruning knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found Ity the crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meeU Sod and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said " They are gone." The... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - 474 páginas
...pavement stone« résonna A* he totter» o'er the ground Cut him down, Kot a bet ter man was foumt By the Crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at «11 he meet* Sad and wan, And he shake* his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are pone."... | |
| 1855 - 1428 páginas
...totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Kre'the pruning knife of Time Cat htm down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. Hut now he walks the streets, And he looks at nil he meets Sad anil wan, And he shakes his feeble head,... | |
| 1857 - 986 páginas
...resound, As be totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that In his prime, Ere the pruning knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By...streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan. And he stiakes his feeble head, That it seems as if be said " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the... | |
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