 | 1914 - 1148 pages
...impressive cartoon entitled " Britannia Sympathizes with Columbia." Underneath were these lines : " YI>II lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier ; You, who...His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face." No less impressive was Tenniel's cartoon illustrating Prince Bismarck's resignation in 1890. It was... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - History - 1915 - 632 pages
...The verses are especially significant because Lincoln had been unmercifully caricatured in Punch. You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier, You, who...self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrow'd face, His gaunt, gnarl'd hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - History - 1915 - 634 pages
...The verses are especially significant because Lincoln had been unmercifully caricatured in Punch. You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier, You, who...self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrow'd face, His gaunt, gnarl'd hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing... | |
 | Ray Stannard Baker - Interpersonal relations - 1915 - 388 pages
...voice as he read the lines, and she knew just where he would falter and have to clear his throat : You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier; You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complaisant British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled... | |
 | Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - Celebrities - 1915 - 326 pages
...the one published in the paper at the head of the poem. 140 ABRAHAM LINCOLN, FOULLY ASSASSINATED YOU lay a wreath on murdered LINCOLN'S bier, You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled... | |
 | History - 1916 - 402 pages
...man. Truly and Fraternally Yours, BB FRENCH ABRAHAM LINCOLN FOULLY ASSASSINATED. APRIL 14. 1865 YOU lay a wreath on murdered LINCOLN'S bier, You, who...shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hand, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease; His lack of all we prize... | |
 | History - 1916 - 396 pages
...man. Truly and Fraternally Yours, BB FRENCH 42 ABRAHAM LINCOLN FOULLY ASSASSINATED, APRIL 14, 1865 YOU lay a wreath on murdered LINCOLN'S bier, You, who...shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hand, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease; His lack of all we prize... | |
 | Marie Louise Herdman - United States - 1916 - 546 pages
...ever paid to him was a poem by Tom Taylor, that appeared in Punch, soon after the assassination: "You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier, You, who...sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, • • • • • Beside this corpse, that bears for winding-sheet The Stars and Stripes he lived... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - Literature - 1917 - 816 pages
...Blue; Tears and love for the Gray. FRANCIS MILES FINCH. Y ABRAHAM LINCOLN THE ATONEMENT OF MR. PUNCH ou lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier: You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complaisant British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face. His gaunt, gnarled... | |
 | William Norman Guthrie - Anthologies - 1917 - 168 pages
...more that night, and, although it was only a dream, I have been strangely annoyed by it ever since." You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complacent sneer, His length of shambling limbs, his furrowed face, "His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling... | |
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You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier! • You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair. His garb... 
