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 - Página 224por Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 544 páginasVista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro
| Charles Madison Curry - 1903 - 572 páginas
...ones around him. He died in December, 1894, and on his mountain tomb in that faraway island is this Requiem: "Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill." Among his longer stories are Kidnapped, David Balfour, Prince Otto, and Treasure Island. He wrote three... | |
| Sir John Alexander Hammerton - 1903 - 382 páginas
...Upon the other panel, in English, is his own Requiem : — A ROBERT LOUIS O 1850 STEVENSON. 1894 ' Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let...home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill! ' Since his death the chiefs have tabooed the use of firearms upon the hillside where he lies, that... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1903 - 666 páginas
...Mr. Sidney •Colvin. Robert Louis Stevenson From a Photograph taken in Samoa FROM " UNDERWOODS."-" REQUIEM." Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And ihe hunter home from the hill. Stevenson's House at Vailima, Samoa FROM " VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE." —... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1903 - 112 páginas
...NOV., 1903 CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD IX 1 JES TRIPLEX . ' 3 ORDERED SOUTH 27 „ WALKING TOURS 59 478393 Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let...longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, A nd the hunter home from the hill. FOREWORD To be honest, to be kind — to earn a little and to spend... | |
| Elia Wilkinson Peattie - 1903 - 252 páginas
..."Virginilms Puerisque," "Travels of a Donkey in the Cevennes," and "Familiar Studies on Men and Books." 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. REQUIESCAT BY MATTHEW AENOLD. Matthew Arnold, son of the... | |
| Charles Warren Stoddard - 1903 - 398 páginas
...crown of Vaea, where he had longed to lie. For has he not sung his own dirge in these prophetic lines? "Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and...where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill." NIGHTS OF TRAVEL NIGHTS OF TRAVEL I. A NIGHT IN ITALY... | |
| John Kelman - 1903 - 326 páginas
...Requiem which, written seven years before his death, was inscribed upon his tombstone at the last : ' Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let...for me ; Here he lies where he longed to be; Home it the tailor, home from tea, And the hunter home from the hill.' Such words imply more than they express... | |
| Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - 1903 - 692 páginas
...friend, Mr. Sidney Colvin. Robert Louis Stevenson From a Photograph taken in Samoa FROM " UNDERWOODS."-" REQUIEM." Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...'grave for me : Here he lies where he longed to be; fjome is the sailor, home from sea, Ami the hunter home from tlu hill. Stevenson's House at Vailima,... | |
| Adam L. Gowans - 1903 - 168 páginas
...; Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. <?/. Requiem. UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...This be the verse you grave for me : Here he lies inhere he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. 1887... | |
| Laura Stubbs - 1903 - 130 páginas
...Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie, Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for...where he longed to be, Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill." On the other side was an inscription in Samoan, which... | |
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