 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...  HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS - Page 229by KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922Full view - About this book
 | John William Cunliffe - 1904 - 344 pages
...the top of the mountain overlooking his Samoan home in a tomb inscribed with his own Requiem : Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me...where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. A COLLEGE MAGAZINE. All through my boyhood and youth, I was... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1904 - 296 pages
...Colvin. Robert Louis Stevenson From a Photograph taken in Stim FROM " UNDERWOODS."-" REQUIEM." Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me...for me Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is ¡he sailor, home from sea, And ¡he hunter home from tlu lull. 3d&iiV&'.i iu *• Stevenson's House... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1904 - 1058 pages
...sounds and passes ; Only winds and rivers, Life and death. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 848. Requiem T TNDER the wide and starry sky **^ Dig the grave and let...the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longd to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. TW ROLLESTON The... | |
 | 1904 - 660 pages
...where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. and on the other Stevenson's own verse, Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me...will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies U'here he longed to be. Home is the sailor, home from the sea And the hunter home from the hill. '••-"•'... | |
 | 1895 - 526 pages
...exercised a far stronger influence over me than Mr. Ruskin. — From The Forum, December, REQUIEM. Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me...will. This be the verse you grave for me : Here he lits where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1904 - 248 pages
...and on it was inscribed the requiem which Stevenson himself had written a few years before : "Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie....live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. One of Stevenson's most intimate friends in America was once asked to sum up the author's character.... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1905 - 492 pages
...to read the beautiful Requiem which he wrote, and which is now engraved on his granite tomb: "Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me...from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill." CONCLUSION From the seventh century to the verge of the twentieth; from semi-barbarous Britain to Christian... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - 1905 - 304 pages
...Colvin. Robert Louis Stevenson From a Photograph taken in Samoa FROM " UNDERWOODS." ~" REQUIEM." Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me...where he longed to be ; home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. Stevenson's House at Vailima, Samoa FROM "ViRGiNiBUS PUERISQUE."—"... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1905 - 274 pages
...wild, From your whole life, O fair and true Your flowers and thorns you bring with you ! REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me...where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. THE CELESTIAL SURGEON IF I have faltered more or less In my... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1905 - 342 pages
...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 and let me...where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. XXII THE CELESTIAL SURGEON IF I have faltered more or less... | |
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