 | John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 sidor
...his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn ; And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if...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.... | |
 | 1861 - 144 sidor
...his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn j And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if...gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has presied In their bloom ; And the names ho loved to hear Have been carved for many a year My grandmamma... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1861 - 450 sidor
...round Through the town. 3. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan,1 And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." 4. The mossy marbles' rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom,3 And the names he loved to... | |
 | James Fleming - 1863 - 404 sidor
...his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if...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, —... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1863 - 368 sidor
...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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1864 - 444 sidor
...his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if...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... | |
 | Albert Rhodes - 1865 - 492 sidor
...perhaps that of some loved friend. Holmes must have had such an one in his mind when he wrote : " And the mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." A few yards from the Zion Gate, and as many rods east of the Coenaculum, stands the town-house of Caiaphas,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 840 sidor
...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 hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." As he finished this verse he said, in his emphatic way: "For pure pathos, in my judgment, there is... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1865 - 866 sidor
...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 year On the tomb." As he finished this verse he said, in his emphatic way : " For pure pathos, in my judgment, there is... | |
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 sidor
...pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was foVind By the Crier on his round Through, the town. And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if...— 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... | |
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My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. 
