 | John William Cunliffe - 1904 - 344 Seiten
...was buried at the top of the mountain overlooking his Samoan home in a tomb inscribed with his own Requiem : Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. A COLLEGE MAGAZINE. All through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for the... | |
 | William Sharp - 1904 - 414 Seiten
...words, so unforgettable in their restful music and in the inward cadence of the heart speaking : — Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let...the sailor, home from sea. And the hunter home from the hill. A friend who saw Stevenson in Samoa told me that once, on half-jocularly asking him 'what's... | |
 | Frank George Carpenter - 1904 - 402 Seiten
...the Samoan style. Upon one side of it is a bronze plate, bearing these verses written by him : — " Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let...the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill." 18. OUR HAWAIIAN POSSESSIONS — HONOLULU WE are again under the shadow of the American... | |
 | Frederic William Unger - 1904 - 216 Seiten
...; Where blest in peace the actions of the just Robert Louis Stevenson's cpitujjh, written himself : Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let...where he longed to be. Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter, home from the hill." On Robert Burton, author of "The Anatomy of Melancholy... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1904 - 296 Seiten
...friend, Mr. Sidney Colvin. Robert Louis Stevenson From a Photograph taken in Stim FROM " UNDERWOODS."-" REQUIEM." Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...for me Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is ¡he sailor, home from sea, And ¡he hunter home from tlu lull. 3d&iiV&'.i iu *• Stevenson's House... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1905 - 342 Seiten
...all the wild, From your whole life, O fair and true Your flowers and thorns you bring with you ! XXI REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. XXII THE CELESTIAL SURGEON IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness;... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - 1905 - 304 Seiten
...friend, Mr. Sidney Colvin. Robert Louis Stevenson From a Photograph taken in Samoa FROM " UNDERWOODS." ~" REQUIEM." Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. Stevenson's House at Vailima, Samoa FROM "ViRGiNiBUS PUERISQUE."—" PAN'S PIPES." There... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1905 - 274 Seiten
...of all the wild, From your whole life, O fair and true Your flowers and thorns you bring with you ! REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. THE CELESTIAL SURGEON IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1905 - 628 Seiten
...scroll, I am the master of my fate : I am the captain of my soul. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky Dig the grave...the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES THE night has a thousand eyes, And... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1905 - 492 Seiten
...possible to read the beautiful Requiem which he wrote, and which is now engraved on his granite tomb: "Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and...where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill." CONCLUSION From the seventh century to the verge of the... | |
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REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter... 
