“No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.”

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,...