 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 psl.
...cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done,...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory ! WOLFE. THE ROSE. THE rose had been washed, just washed in a shower, Which Mary to Anna conveyed ;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 psl.
...cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton expected bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted...to some ; To him indifferent whether grief or joy. freeh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with his... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 psl.
...him ; But little he'll reck, if they'll let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 7. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock...distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory ; We carved not a... | |
 | Zack R. Bowen - 1974 - 394 psl.
...which relates the last hurried rites accorded the British leader by his vanquished and retreating army: Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...his fame fresh and gory — We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory! When the origin of the words is known,... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 psl.
...clock told 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. Anon. 20. The Lady1s Louking-Glass, CEI.IA... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 psl.
...England and enjoyed considerable military success against Napoleon's forces in Spain. The poem ends: "We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — / But we left him alone with his glory" (lines 3 1-32). 16.1533-34 (655:22-23). unless it ensued that ... to be a party to it - There is considerable... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 psl.
...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...not 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,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 psl.
...NOBA; QFR 2 But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. (1. 11—12) 3 C (1. 31—32) ChTr; EnRP; FaBoPa; FaBoRV; FaFP; FaPoR; GN; GTBS; GTBS-P; NOBE; OBEV; OBWP; PoRA; PWR;... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 psl.
...far away on the hillow! 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,...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... | |
 | Arnold D. Harvey - 1998 - 350 psl.
...our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning . . . But half of our heavy task was done When the clock...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. With its restraint and precision, and the dying fall of its feminine endings, its half-rhymes, and... | |
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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,... 
