 | Ward Hill Lamon, Chauncey Forward Black - 1872 - 604 páginas
...Holmes's " Last Leaf " he thought was " inexpressibly touching." This verse we give the reader : — " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." Mr. Lincoln frequently said that he lived by his humor, and would have died without it. His manner... | |
 | 1872 - 1176 páginas
...of all his friends and companions ? Where will the happiness be for the lonely centenarian— " When the mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed,...hear, Have been carved for many a year On the tomb?" As he looks on life's busy whirl, so change less in its activity, its energy, and its vigour, yet ever... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1872 - 370 páginas
...also from memory. The verse he referred to occurs in about the middle of the poem, and is this : — " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...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, m my judgment, there is... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 páginas
...his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn ; ; ¿nd the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said... | |
 | London Mayfair - 1874 - 468 páginas
...him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. 146 THE LAST LEAF. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all...! " 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.... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1874 - 336 páginas
...hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn ; A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.6 64. The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. 65. He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need ; If thou sorrow, he will weep, If... | |
 | 1875 - 432 páginas
...Cut him down, THE LAST LEAF. Not a belter man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all...! " 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.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - 436 páginas
...pruning-knifc of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all...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.... | |
 | 1876 - 508 páginas
...pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets. And he looks at all...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... | |
 | Charles Henry Jones - 1876 - 424 páginas
...Cut him down, THE LAST LEAF. Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all...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.... | |
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Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on 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 he said, "They... 
