 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 pages
...clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. GOLDSMITH. BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And our lantern dimly burning.... | |
 | Salem Town - American literature - 1847 - 420 pages
...pronounced " the most perfect in the language," was born in Dublin in 1791, and died in 1823.] 1. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. 2. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moon-beam's... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (of the 43rd Light Infantry.) - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1847 - 176 pages
...BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE " Not a drum wag heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampar^we- hurried!. Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot,...buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with sur bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless... | |
 | Aristophanes - Greek drama (Comedy) - 1848 - 522 pages
...except that the place of the spondee of quantity is usually supplied by the iambus of accent. " Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, " As his corse...sods with our bayonets turning ; " By the struggling moon-beam's misty light, " And the lantern dimly burning."09 Any ordinary " hexameter"00 may be converted... | |
 | Richard Cannon - 1848 - 174 pages
...furnished the fatigue party in the interment of their revered Commander :— Not a drum was heard,—not a funeral note,— As his corse to the rampart we...sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning! 1809 -No useless coffin enclosed his breast,... | |
 | William Russell - 1848 - 94 pages
...sound but the lullaby sung by the rill.' EXERCISES ON PITCH. Lam Notes. ' Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note As his corse to the rampart we hurried...buried. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning.'... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1848 - 460 pages
...and one puhlications of the day, I offer it as it fell mournfully from the poet's own pen. u Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note As his corse to...his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we huried. We huried him darkly — at dead of nicht, The sods with our hayoneta turning; By the struggling... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 424 pages
...speaks ; the French, one of the ingenious Father Prout's versions. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - France - 1848 - 532 pages
...funeral. BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his course to the ramparts we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell...buried We buried him darkly at dead of night, The turf with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lanterns dimly burning.... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pages
...BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE, WHO FELL AT THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA, ISOS. WOLFE. NOT a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried...sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in... | |
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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... 
