 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.  Literature Reader - Page 70by Leroy E. Armstrong - 1916Full view - About this book
 | 1836 - 268 pages
...That it seems as if he said, ' They are 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.. My grandmama has said — Poor old lady— she is dead Long ago; That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek... | |
 | 1836 - 418 pages
...the above beautiful poem, that the same pen could trace the following, speaking of an old man — " My grandmamma has said, — Poor old lady, she is...dead, Long ago,— That he had a Roman nose, And his check was like a rose In the snow. " But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff,... | |
 | 1836 - 706 pages
...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 ! 4 My grand roam a has said — Poor old lady — she is dead Long ago ; That he hada Roman none,... | |
 | 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 pages
...'The Last Leaf,' which Poe copied in his own handwriting and Abraham Lincoln was fond of quoting : ' The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest...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 - 372 pages
...chance of show. Is the poem whence the following verses arc extracted an honest selection ? My grandmama has said — Poor old lady ; she is dead Long ago—...Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow .' I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat, And the... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1839 - 368 pages
...of show. Is the poem whence the following verьes are extracted an honest selection ? My grandmama has said — Poor old lady ; she is dead Long ago...he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose III tiit- зiWW.' I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 302 pages
...their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmama has said — Poor old lady ; she is dead Long ago...he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 304 pages
...That it seems as if he said "They are 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. My grandmama has said — Poor old lady ; she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 300 pages
...That it seems as if he said " They are 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. My grandmama has said — Poor old lady; she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek... | |
 | 1841 - 376 pages
...That it seems as if he said " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have...ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was liie a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook... | |
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