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| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 sider
...clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carv'd not a line, and we rais'd not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory ! WOLFE. THE LIVING... | |
| sir Charles Gavan Duffy - 1845 - 262 sider
...clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; A LAMENT FOR THE TIRON'IAN AND TIRCONNELLIAN FRINGES BURIED AT ROME. TRANSLATED FROM THE ITCISH, BT... | |
| 1846 - 436 sider
...of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly...of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory. THE TRAVELLER.S RETURN. — Southcy.... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 sider
...clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the...of his fame fresh and gory : We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone,— But left him alone with his glory. CHARLES WOLFE. OH, MY LOVE HAS AN... | |
| 1846 - 166 sider
...clock told the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory, We carv'd not a line, we rais'd not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. THE GATHERING OF THE... | |
| Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1846 - 144 sider
...barren. How 6ne must be the impression which the rays of light produce on the retina of the eye ! • we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved a line, we raised a stone, But we left him in his glory. Ellipsis of the Preposition. Rain is formed... | |
| Anthony Hamilton (of the 43rd Light Infantry.) - 1847 - 176 sider
...done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down,...field of his fame fresh and gory, We carved not a line and we raised not a stone— But we left him alone with his glory! During the retreat to Corunna, his... | |
| Book - 1847 - 216 sider
...When the clock struck the hour for retiring : And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down...of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. WOLFE. WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS... | |
| Book - 1847 - 206 sider
...When the, clock struck the hour for retiring : And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down...of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS LIBRARY.... | |
| 1847 - 568 sider
...clock struck the hoar for retiring; And we henrd the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. " Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From...of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with bis glory !" The village of VILLA VELLID,... | |
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