 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 頁
...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and...of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory ! WOLFE. [Seldom indeed can it be said... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 頁
...that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, But half of our heavy task was done, "When the clock...a stone — But we left him alone with his glory. WOLFE. 97. VILLAGE CHILDBEN. A BAND of village children, hand in hand, Came speeding lightly on the... | |
 | Sir Charles Gavan Duffy - 1861 - 264 頁
...him, — Put little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has hud him. Bat half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck...him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory j A LAMENT FOB THE TIRONIAK AND TIRCONNELLIAN PRINCBS BURIED AT ROME. TRANSLATED FROM THE BUSH, BY... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 頁
...dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger...a stone, — But we left him alone with his glory. Wolfe. WORK AND BEST. " BEST P " — Thou must not seek for reet Until thy task be done ; Thou must... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 頁
...would tread o'er his head And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they '11 talk of the spirit that 's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But...not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory ! SONG. IF I had thought thou couldst have died, I might not weep for thee ; But I forgot, when by... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1862 - 564 頁
...• they '11 talk of the spirit that 's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he 'il reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where...of his fame, fresh and gory ! We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him — alone with his glory ! THE BATTLE OF IIOIIENLISDKN, 1800.... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 頁
...the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory! DEFINITIONS. — 3. Mar'tial (pro. mar'shal), military. 6. Upbraid', to charge with something wrong... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 頁
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head And we far away on the billow . . . 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down. From the field...not a stone But we left him alone with his glory! The lines celebrate a heroic memory with a beauty inseparable from the English language - one untranslatable,... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 頁
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the hillow! But little he'll reck if they let him sleep on, In...line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory. HENRY CLAY WORK (1832-1884) "GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK" may he a hit out of place here hecause... | |
 | Arnold D. Harvey - 1998 - 350 頁
...our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning . . . But half of our heavy task was done When the clock...not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. With its restraint and precision, and the dying fall of its feminine endings, its half-rhymes, and... | |
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Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the 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. 
