 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1848 - 424 páginas
...speaks ; the French, one of the ingenious Father Prout's versions. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...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... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 páginas
...BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE, WHO 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...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1856 - 666 páginas
...beauty about them which every sensitive heart at once recognises. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 páginas
...said of this ballad that he would rather be the author of It than of any one ever written. 1. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...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 our bayonets turning, By the struggling... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 páginas
...shifting rhythms of these famous lines on the death of John Moore during the battle of Coruiia:7 1. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. 2. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeams'... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1992 - 260 páginas
...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... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1996 - 220 páginas
...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... | |
 | Arnold D. Harvey - 1998 - 350 páginas
...'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... | |
 | Eddie McCartney - 1999 - 104 páginas
...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... | |
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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... 
