 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 σελίδες
...the structure of hi> verse, without impairing its vigour. WOLFE. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Nor a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...moonbeam's misty light. And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enelosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound htm But he lay like a warrior... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 σελίδες
...gems" which '* The iLirk, unfluhnmed depths of ocran hear.'* WOLFE. THE BUR1AL OF S1R JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we hurled. We huried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, — By the struggling... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 σελίδες
...THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 σελίδες
...bow was still seen in the sky. LESSON XCV. The Burial of Sir John Moore.*— REV. C. WOLFE. 1. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our Hero was... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 σελίδες
...mourn: flow forth afresh my tears Beuttie. EXERCISE 29. The Burial of Sir John Moore. 1 ( — )Not a drum was heard, «not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave, where our Hero'was... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1996 - 220 σελίδες
...and 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 corse to...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 - 524 σελίδες
...funeral accompaniments, though it may be, — Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note. As his corpse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged...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... | |
 | Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Sharon La Boda - 1995 - 848 σελίδες
...Grandiose and gushy, the poem nonetheless befits the legend it has long since surpassed in fame: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note. As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a solider discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. Further Reading: Moore... | |
 | Arnold D. Harvey - 1998 - 350 σελίδες
...'The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna': Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corpse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged...moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning . . . But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard... | |
 | Barbara Williams - 1998 - 328 σελίδες
...hill with shovel and burden. It was Charles Wolfe's "The burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna": "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,/ As his corse...we hurried./ Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot/O'er the grave where our hero was buried." So literature and its uses were part of my childhood,... | |
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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. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling... 
