 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - 436 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1875 - 432 Seiten
...for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago — 76 That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff; And a crook is in his back, And... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 Seiten
...And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have...Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff ; And a crook is in his back, And... | |
 | Charles Henry Jones - 1876 - 424 Seiten
...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...has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago— THE LAST LEAF. That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose... | |
 | 1876 - 508 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1878 - 708 Seiten
...seems as if he paid, "They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In (heir bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved...That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rosn In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 Seiten
...are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom; And the names ho loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On...is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And Lie cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a... | |
 | 1878 - 484 Seiten
...Parts." GEORGE AIKMAN. f. No. 728. 728. AS BOYD. ' ' The mossy marbtes rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a ye.ir On the tomb.'" Next is a small landscape— 729. " A Highland Ferry." ADA M. BARCLAY ; and on... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 Seiten
...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 yeat On the tomb. ' My grandmamma has said, — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago,— That he had... | |
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But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. 
