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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. "
The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction - Page 274
by Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 468 pages
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The Harbinger: A May-gift

Park Benjamin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Osborne Sargent - 1833 - 114 pages
...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...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...
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The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 1; Volume 7

1836 - 694 pages
...bloom, And the names lie loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. "My grand mama has said — Poor old lady — she is dead Long ago...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 stall', And a crook is in his back, And...
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The Laurel: a Gift for All Seasons: Being a Collection of Poems

1836 - 268 pages
...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...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 2

1836 - 418 pages
...the above beautiful poem, that the same pen could trace the following, speaking of an old man — " My grandmamma has said, — Poor old lady, she is...dead, Long ago,— That he had a Roman nose, And his check was like a rose In the snow. " But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff,...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 7

1836 - 706 pages
...That it seems as if ho said, 'They are gone." ' The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prosied In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb ! 4 My grand roam a has said — Poor old lady — she is dead Long ago ; That he hada Roman none,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 180

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 - 634 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,...
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The Book of the Months: A Gift for the Young

1839 - 204 pages
...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...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...
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Burtons' Gentleman's Magazine and American Monthly Review, Volume 5

1839 - 372 pages
...chance of show. Is the poem whence the following verses arc extracted an honest selection ? My grandmama has said — Poor old lady ; she is dead Long ago—...Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow .' I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat, And the...
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Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 5

William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1839 - 368 pages
...of show. Is the poem whence the following verües are extracted an honest selection ? My grandmama has said — Poor old lady ; she is dead Long ago...he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose III tiit- çiWW.' I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered...
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The Poets of America: Illustrated by One of Her Painters...

John Keese - 1840 - 302 pages
...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...he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And...
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