 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...can charm no more ; And mourned, till pity's self be dead. COLLINS. BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Nor in... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...a great nation. ON THE 1HIUIAL OF SIB JOHN HOORE, WHO J'ELI, AT CORUNNA. 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... | |
 | 1844 - 402 pages
...celebrated than touehiqgly beautiful lines, on his death. J— -Eo. MAO. 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 moon-beam's misty light, And th« lantera dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not... | |
 | 1844 - 452 pages
...celebrated than touchingly beautiful lines, on hie death, j — ED. MAO. NOT a dram was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried—...dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By lite struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...college friends. The Burial of Sir John Moore. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corpse and R. Chambers moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - 428 pages
...your gates, and give the victors way !" EXERCISES ON PITCH. f Low Notes. " Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, • As his corse to the rampart we...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."... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...himself endures. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard nor a funeral note, As his corse o'er the rampart we hurried, Not a soldier discharged his...buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the trembling moon-beams' misty light, And our lantern dimly burning.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...vnraistiblc might of weakness, shaking the powers of darkness." THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE.1 NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to...sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...WOLFE, with an interesting memoir of his life. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. 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, Not in... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried : Not a soldier discharg'd his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we...light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclos'd his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his... | |
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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... 
