Requiem Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter... Bartlett's Poems for Occasions - Page 224by Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 544 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| 1919 - 902 pages
...slope to take up again their daily tasks, of the requiem and epitaph by Robert Louis Stevenson : " Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let...where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.' " A MANY-SIDED MAN No report is possible of the great... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - History - 1887 - 204 pages
...all the wild, From your whole life, O fair and true Your flowers and thorns you bring with you ! XXI REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. XXII . THE CELESTIAL SURGEON IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness ; If I have... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1922 - 1000 pages
...has in the manuscript an extra stanza, placed be^i . r •'• tween the two ever-famuiar verses. XX Requiem , , • , , , "Under the wide and starry sky,...live and gladly die And I laid me down with a will. Here shall be rest for evermo, And the heart for aye shall be still This be the verse you grave for... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1888 - 338 pages
...Such a passage is surely the following "Requiem " : " Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave und let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I...grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Some is the sailor, home from sea, Atul the hunter home from the hill." The greater number of these... | |
| Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - American literature - 1888 - 572 pages
...pretentious lyrics, and volumes and cycles of lyrics, have long gone silent ?— Under the wide and starrr sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live...gladly die. And I laid me down with a will. This be the verge you grave for me: Here he Пев where he l-nged to be; Borne is the sailor, hnme from sea, And... | |
| American poetry - 1892 - 266 pages
...carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with hia glory ! Charles Wolfe. REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky Dig the grave,...where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. Robert Louis Stevenson. THE VOICE OF THE SEA Iff the hush... | |
| American poetry - 1892 - 266 pages
...line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory ! Charles Wolfe. REQUIEM UXDER the wide and starry sky Dig the grave, and let me...where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. Robert Louis Stevenson. THE VOICE OF THE SEA IN the hush... | |
| American poetry - 1892 - 260 pages
...carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory ! Charles Wolfe. REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky Dig the grave,...you grave for me : Here he lies where he longed to he ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. Robert Louis Stevenson,... | |
| Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - History - 1895 - 820 pages
...pathos, each several word of which is English unadulterated, with the one exception of the word verse: REQUIEM. Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...home from sea. And the hunter home from the hill. Kipling also, among those enchanting provocative interludes of rhyme which are to be found in his prose... | |
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