 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,...  An Introduction to Poetry - 146 psl.autoriai: Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty - 1922 - 524 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | 1813 - 410 psl.
...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and...line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory. THE MARRIAGE OF SIR JOHN SMITH. PHCEBE CAREY. Not a sigh was heard, nor a funeral tone,... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - 502 psl.
...the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not n stone,— But we left him alone with his glory. ART. 11. THESPIAN REGISTER. . Friday... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - 492 psl.
...tolf'd the hour for retiring, And we beard the distant random gun That the foe was suddenly tiring. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, — But we left him alone with his glory. ART. 11. THESPIAN REGISTER. Friday... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1818 - 1264 psl.
...toll'd the hour for retiring} ' And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...of his fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. MR. MR. CAMPBELL'S ODE ON THE RETIREMENT... | |
 | Mordecai Manuel Noah - 1819 - 508 psl.
...clock tolled the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...of his fame fresh and gory, We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, Put we left him alone with his glory." London paper,' Our captain went on shore... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 psl.
...toll'd the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and random guq, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...of his fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. Sir John Moore, was killed by a cannon... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1821 - 448 psl.
...tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...of his fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, Bat we left him alone with his glory. MARRIAGE CEREMONIES OF VARIOUS NATIONS.... | |
 | Soldier - 1824 - 518 psl.
...clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...of his fame fresh and gory, We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. X.IGBT DRAGOONS. ON the peace of 1763,... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 372 psl.
...told the hour for retiring ; " And we heard by the distant and random gun, " That the foe was suddenly firing, " Slowly and sadly we laid him down, " From...his fame fresh and gory ; " We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, " But we left him alone with his glory." The feeling with which he recited these... | |
 | 1825 - 508 psl.
...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...we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with hii glory !' THE TRIAL OF DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ.* WE have seldom spent an hour more agreeably than... | |
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