 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...That it seems as if he said, "They are 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. My grandmamma has said— Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago— That he had a Roman nose, And his... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1860 - 368 pages
...it seems as if he said', " They are goneV 4. The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has press'd In their bloom' ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb\ 5. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady' ! she is dead Long ago' — That he had a Roman nose',... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1861 - 304 pages
...That it seems as if he said, " They are 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. My grandmamma has said, — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago, — That he had a Roman nose, And... | |
 | Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 844 pages
...That it seem» as if he said, "They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom. And the names he loved to hear Have been raircd fur many a year Ou the tomb. My grandmamma has said — I'oor old In.ly. she is dead Lonr auu... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 368 pages
...seems as if he said', " They are goneV 4. The mossy marbles rest * On the lips that he has press'd In their bloom' ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a yeai On the tomb'. . 5. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady' ! she is dead Long ago* — That... | |
 | James Fleming - 1863 - 404 pages
...They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the na^jies he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grand-mamma has said, — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago,— That he had a Roman uose, And... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American poetry - 1864 - 444 pages
...That it seems as if he said, " They are 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. That he had a Roman nose, And his check was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 864 pages
...from memory. The verse he referred to occurs in about the middle of the poem, and is this : — uThe mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...he said, in his emphatic way : " For pure pathos, in my judgment, there is nothing finer than those six lines in the English language !" Mr. R. McCormick,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...in about the middle of the poem, and is this : — "The moesy marbles rest On the lips that he haa pressed In their bloom, And the names he loved to...verse he said, in his emphatic way: "For pure pathos, in my judgment, there is nothing finer than those six lines in the English language !" Mr. R. McCormick,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...poem, and is this : — "The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom, And tho names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a...he said, in his emphatic way : " For pure pathos, in my judgment, there is nothing finer than those six lines in the English language !" Mr. R. McCormick,... | |
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In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. 
