 | D R. M'Nab - 1860 - 296 pages
...the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe were sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down,...and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stoneBut we left him alone with his glory. WOLFE. " But, Socrates, how would you be buried ?" " Just... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, But half of our heavy task was done, "When the clock...a stone — But we left him alone with his glory. WOLFE. 97. VILLAGE CHILDBEN. A BAND of village children, hand in hand, Came speeding lightly on the... | |
 | Sir Charles Gavan Duffy - Ballads - 1861 - 264 pages
...him, — Put little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has hud him. Bat half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck...him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory j A LAMENT FOB THE TIRONIAK AND TIRCONNELLIAN PRINCBS BURIED AT ROME. TRANSLATED FROM THE BUSH, BY... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...they '11 talk of the spirit that 's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where...not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory ! SONG. IF I had thought thou couldst have died, I might not weep for thee ; But I forgot, when by... | |
 | Popular poetry - English poetry - 1862 - 246 pages
...Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where...a stone, — But we left him alone with his glory. Wolfe. WORK AND BEST. " BEST P " — Thou must not seek for reet Until thy task be done ; Thou must... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1862 - 564 pages
...• they '11 talk of the spirit that 's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he 'il reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where...of his fame, fresh and gory ! We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him — alone with his glory ! THE BATTLE OF IIOIIENLISDKN, 1800.... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the dock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory ! William Cullen Bryant. Bom 1794. THE DAMSEL OF PERU. WHERE olive leaves were twinkling in every wind... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1879 - 372 pages
...the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory! DEFINITIONS. — 3. Mar'tial (pro. mar'shal), military. 6. Upbraid', to charge with something wrong... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - Political Science - 1991 - 244 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head And we far away on the billow . . . 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down. From the field...a stone But we left him alone with his glory! The lines celebrate a heroic memory with a beauty inseparable from the English language - one untranslatable,... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Literary Collections - 1995 - 212 pages
...the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the hillow! But little he'll reck if they let him sleep on, In the grave where...line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory. HENRY CLAY WORK (1832-1884) "GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK" may he a hit out of place here hecause... | |
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Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him ! But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring,... 
