 | John Beatty - 1998 - 404 pages
...Wolfe recur to us: " No useless coffin inclosed his breast; Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. * * * * Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not... | |
 | Bernard Cornwell - 2009 - 338 pages
..."No, my Lord." "You don't!" Cochrane sounded astonished, then again assumed his declamatory pose: "But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him" "The verses, you understand, refer to the burial of Sir John Moore. Did you know Moore?" "I met him,"... | |
 | Dora Helena Tamayo Ortiz - 2005 - 835 pages
...pasaje sublime "La inhumación de Sir John Moore", descrito por Wolfe en estos versos inmortales: "But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him".z Venciendo el miedo con el despecho, pues la fámula detestaba a Mardoqueo tanto como su esposa,... | |
 | David M. Bethea - 2005 - 720 pages
...have been cut). 28. His "The Burial of Sir John Moore" (1817) is quoted in Journey to Arzrum: ". . . like a warrior taking his rest / With his martial cloak around him" (Pushkin, Pss, 8:450). This poem, known in Russia through L Kozlov's translation, was published for... | |
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Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. 
