 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 Seiten
...stores prepare, And we shall kneel again in thankful prayer, : WOLFE. THE BURIAL OF SIB JOHN MOOU. 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.... | |
 | 1855 - 440 Seiten
...may be familiar to most of our readers. It was written by the Rev. Charles Wolfe, of Dublin. " 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 buried. " We buried him darkly, at dead... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 Seiten
...hastily carried to the ramparts of the town, and buried there in the gloom and silence of night. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried ; Not a soldier discharg'd his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. We buried him darkly at dead... | |
 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 Seiten
...grandeur of the objects described. LOW AND SOLEMN. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MORE. 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... | |
 | Robert Penn Warren - 1988 - 114 Seiten
...recognize the first two lines, and the last of that favorite of my boyhood. The first two lines are: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried I remembered that "hurried" rhymes with "buried." I recognized the rest of the poem,... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 Seiten
...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 the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1992 - 260 Seiten
...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 the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried."... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 Seiten
...civil disohedience, without identifying the poem or its author. The Burial of Sir John Moore 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 we huried. We huried him darkly, at dead... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1996 - 220 Seiten
...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 the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.... | |
 | Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Sharon La Boda - 1995 - 848 Seiten
...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.... | |
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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... 
