 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1906 - 524 pages
...heroines he defines a pirate as a beard, a pair of wide trousers, and a liberal complement of pistols. " 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,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1906 - 238 pages
...first?" cried Will. 'I have been waiting for you these many years. Give me your hand, and welcome. ' 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 ;... | |
 | Christine Wilkie-Stibbs - 2002 - 232 pages
...Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, ed. Arthur Quiller-Couch (Oxford: Oxford University Press, l9l2), 74l. "Under The wide and starry sky / Dig The grave and let me lie / Glad did I live and gladly die . . . This is the verse you grave for me: / 'Here he lies where he longed to be; /Home is The sailor,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 2003 - 334 pages
...also at the great sea where for six years he sailed and gladly lived. 1850 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1894 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... | |
 | Sid McMath - 2003 - 516 pages
...ground, his grave. The tombstone bore an epitaph from one of Stevenson's greatest poems and my favorite: Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie Glad that I lived and gladly die And I laid me down with a will This be the verse you gave for me Here he... | |
 | Ashby Bland Crowder - 2004 - 430 pages
...title." " Meanwhile, Humphrey hit upon Home from the Hill, from Robert Louis Stevenson's "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... | |
 | Jack Kulpa - 2004 - 218 pages
...sportsman, but his poem, "Requiem," could be an epitaph for every man who lives and loves the outdoor life: 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 long'd to be; Home... | |
 | Andreas Dörpinghaus - 2004 - 316 pages
...Lebzeiten bestimmt. Die letzten drei Zeilen seines 1879 verfassten „Requiems", zieren den Grabstein: „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... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pages
...language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR ENGLISH (1775-1864) 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... | |
 | Howard Jacobson - 2007 - 354 pages
...a small amount of Robert Louis Stevenson memorabilia: 'Requiem' in a chipped brown frame Under die 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. - and a photograph of the grave itself, the famous sepulchre built, as the... | |
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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 home... 
