 | Poetic reader - 1881 - 252 pages
...he meets So forlorn, As he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone ! " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...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... | |
 | 1909 - 680 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... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1895 - 672 pages
...soul is life itself. Kven his " Last Leaf " is not primarily pathetic but humorous, yet the stanza, " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb," brings a lump into the throat and a dimming of the eves, no matter how often one repeat the lines.... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1895 - 674 pages
...soul is life itself. Even his " Last Leaf "is not primarily pathetic but humorous, yet the stanza, " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb," brings a lump into the throat and a dimming of the eyes, no matter how often one repeat the lines.... | |
 | 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 - 596 pages
...handwriting and Abraham Lincoln was fond of quoting : ' 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.' Since that time other works in prose and verse have poured from his pen, till his name as an essayist,... | |
 | Illinois State Historical Society - 1922 - 604 pages
...all he meets So forlorn; And he shakes his feeble head That it seems as if he said, They are gone. "The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." List of Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library and Society. No. 1. *A Bibliography of... | |
 | 1918 - 916 pages
...newspapers he had come across Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes' "The Last Leaf", and he never tired of quoting: "The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb". He was as tender hearted as a woman, and many a letter of his is now preserved as a treasured heirloom,... | |
 | Don Fehrenbacher, Virginia Fehrenbacher - 1996 - 674 pages
...21, these two words are replaced with: "He said in substance." 86. The verse Lincoln referred to was: And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." 87. For earlier versions, indicating that this was a well-worn joke, see Zall, 6768. 88. Zall, 69,... | |
 | Michael Burlingame - 1997 - 418 pages
...treated the death of loved ones.148 He was fondest of the following stanza: The mossy marbles rest On lips that he has pressed In their bloom; And the names...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. Of these verses he said, "For pure pathos, in my judgment, there is nothing finer than those six lines... | |
 | Douglas L. Wilson - 1997 - 216 pages
...such that some regarded it as his favorite, particularly the fourth stanza: The mossy marbles rest On lips that he has pressed In their bloom; And the names...hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. Lincoln told Carpenter, "For pure pathos, in my judgment, there is nothing finer than those six lines... | |
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In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. 
