 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 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.... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...Outalissi's soul ; Because I may not stain with grief The death-song of an Indian chief." CAMPBELL. 73. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. NOT a drum was heard, not...funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...not. l CAROLINE FRY. 1 " I ,r plus sage est celui qui ne pense point de I'etre. " • Boileau. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE.' NOT a 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 buried.... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...ra'pture/ shall lisp forth thy praise. ODE ON THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE.* REV. CHARLES WOLFE.-)NOT a drum was hea'rd, not a funeral n'ote, (As his corse to the ramparts we h'urried;) Not a soldier discharged/ his farewell sh'ot O'er the gr'ave/ where our H'ero... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...pale, Yields to his fate so ends my tale. LESSON CXXXI. The Burial of Sir John Moore. WOLFE. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.... | |
 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1846 - 144 pages
...I bring my captive train ; I pledge my faith, my liege, my lord; oh! break my father's chain. 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 soul, secure in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. The stars shall... | |
 | Robert Penn Warren - History - 1988 - 114 pages
...recognize the first two lines, and the last of that favorite of my boyhood. The first two lines are: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried I remembered that "hurried" rhymes with "buried." I recognized the rest of the poem, but later could... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - Political Science - 1991 - 244 pages
...shifting rhythms of these famous lines on the death of John Moore during the battle of Coruiia:7 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 moonbeams'... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 260 pages
...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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Literary Collections - 1995 - 212 pages
...stanza, in his famous essay on civil disohedience, without identifying the poem or its author. The Burial of Sir John Moore Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we huried.... | |
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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. 
