“Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.”

About Charles Wolfe

Poet • Irish

Charles Wolfe was an Irish poet and Anglican clergyman, remembered chiefly for his single masterpiece, "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna." Born in County Kildare, Ireland, he attended Trinity College, Dublin,...