 | Henry David Thoreau - 1996 - 220 oldal
...and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. The mass of men serve the State thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are... | |
 | Lenora Ledwon - 1996 - 524 oldal
...funeral accompaniments, though it may be, — Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note. As his corpse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are... | |
 | Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Sharon La Boda - 1995 - 848 oldal
...Grandiose and gushy, the poem nonetheless befits the legend it has long since surpassed in fame: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note. As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a solider discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. Further Reading: Moore... | |
 | Barbara Williams - 1998 - 328 oldal
...hill with shovel and burden. It was Charles Wolfe's "The burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna": "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,/ As his corse...we hurried./ Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot/O'er the grave where our hero was buried." So literature and its uses were part of my childhood,... | |
 | Andrey Bely - 1999 - 300 oldal
...the original, the opening stanza reads: "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, / As his corpse to the rampart we hurried; / Not a soldier discharged...farewell shot / O'er the grave where our hero we buried" (C. Wolfe et al., Songs of the Brave [London, 1856]). 40 "Colors of afire bright . . .": A poem by... | |
 | Bernard Cornwell - 2009 - 338 oldal
...breast, and declaimed in a mighty voice that momentarily stilled even the moaning of the wounded: "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried!" His Lordship applauded his own rendering of the lines. "Who wrote that?" "An Irishman!" MacAuley shouted... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 2000 - 324 oldal
...'tis thy voice from the kingdom of souls Faintly answering still the notes that once were so dear. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE 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... | |
 | Jahan Ramazani - 2001 - 248 oldal
...colonially inherited poem "The Burial of Sir John Moore," a Napoleonic war elegy by Charles Wolfe: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. 89 Bennett humorously transfigures a death lament into a nativity ode. She tropes the empire as death... | |
 | Catherine L. Albanese - 2001 - 550 oldal
...already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be, — "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried." The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are... | |
 | Howard Zinn - 2002 - 220 oldal
...already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be, — "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note. As his corse to...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried." The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are... | |
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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... 
