 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 էջ
...FELL AT THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA, ISOS. WOLFE. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged...dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 էջ
...rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero we huried. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with...dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 էջ
...thankful prayer, WOLFE THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOOU. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged...dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 էջ
...we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. 2. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with...moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 3. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like... | |
 | Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 էջ
...beneath the kisses of Night; mixed with three-foot verses in C. Wolfe's Burial of Sir John Moore: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corpse...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. Cowper's Alexander Selkirk consists of anapaestic verses of three feet: I am monarch of all I survey;... | |
 | Lenora Ledwon - 1996 - 524 էջ
...already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be, — Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note. As his corpse...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are... | |
 | Lenora Ledwon - 1996 - 522 էջ
...say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be, — Not a drum was heard, nota funeral note, As his corpse to the rampart we hurried;...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are... | |
 | Andrey Bely - 1999 - 300 էջ
...the Irish poet Reverend Charles Wolfe (1791-1823). In the original, the opening stanza reads: "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, / As his corpse...farewell shot / O'er the grave where our hero we buried" (C. Wolfe et al., Songs of the Brave [London, 1856]). 40 "Colors of afire bright . . .": A poem by... | |
 | Eddie McCartney - 1999 - 104 էջ
...drum was heard, not a funeral note As his corpse to the rampart we hurried, Not a soldier discharges his farewell shot, O'er the grave where our Hero we...sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam 's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. ' 5a11yc1og V-SJTS . ^ Stewartstown, about... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 2000 - 324 էջ
...we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. 12 We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with...dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial... | |
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Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. 
