 | English literature - 1910 - 356 pages
...understand. The night at Thy command Comes. -I will eat and sleep and will not question more. , EEQUIEM Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let...the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hul. INDEX TO NOTES, AND GLOSSARY The page number is given tirst ; a superior numeral or character... | |
 | Hugh Walker - English literature - 1910 - 1082 pages
...13-14. he retained this conviction that sound sleep after life's fitful fever is the best reward : — " Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let...the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. " Stevenson bore himself admirably in the crisis, recognising that his parents suffered more... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Cévennes Mountains - 1910 - 276 pages
...the summer seas he loved so well. On a tablet on his tombstone have been placed the words of his own Requiem: " Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the...where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill." r •' ••' _j ... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - Authors, American - 1910 - 442 pages
...wish of Mr. Stevenson that he should rest. One of the inscriptions upon the tomb is his own noble. 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. XLV KIPLING IN INDIA IN four lines of oft-quoted poetry... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 490 pages
...thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And to my dead heart run them in. 745 REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home jrom sea, And the hunter home jrom the hill. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 746 THANATOPSIS To him who in the... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Cévennes Mountains (France) - 1910 - 274 pages
...seas he loved so well. On a tablet on his tombstone have been placed the words of his own Requiem: 9 " 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." OF ... | |
 | EDWIN WATTS CHUBB - 1910 - 426 pages
...Stevenson that he should rest. One of the inscriptions upon the tomb is his own noble. Requiem: Tinder the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie;...where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter none from the bill. XLV KIPLING IN INDIA IN four lines of oft-quoted poetry... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1911 - 642 pages
...bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, 470 949. REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. RL STEVENSON. 950. THE SPANISH ARMADA FROM merciless invaders, From wicked men's device,... | |
 | English poetry - 1911 - 784 pages
...sun, All that was good, all that was fair, All that was me is gone. REQUIEM (From the same) Tinder the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me...the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. mewbolt 1862HOPE THE HORN-BLOWER* " Hark ye, hark to the winding horn ; Sluggards, awake,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Cévennes Mountains (France) - 1911 - 326 pages
...God : where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried." On the other side is Stevenson's own 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. Boulogne > OriBny Sainte-B«nona F ) ont Saiute Maxence... | |
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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... 
