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Home Is the Sailor may refer to: "Home is the sailor", a line from Robert Louis Stevenson's inscribed tombstone, Requiem; Home Is the Sailor , a 1987 episode of Cheers; Home Is the Sailor, a 1961 novel by Jorge Amado "Home Is the Sailor", a 1949 short story by Dorothy Black
Home from the Hill is a phrase from Robert Louis Stevenson's poem (and epitaph), Requiem, the last two lines of which read: Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. As a title, it may refer to: Home from the Hill, the first novel by author William Humphrey, published in 1958
It is Robert Louis Stevenson's: 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 from the hill.
Home from the Sea may refer to: "Requiem" by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Home is the sailor, home from the sea, and the hunter, home from the hill" Home from the Sea, a 1963 memoir by Joy Packer; Home from the Sea (film), a 1972 Japanese film directed by Yôji Yamada; Home from the Sea (fantasy novel), a 2012 fantasy novel by Mercedes Lackey
Here is the basic plot of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, in case you need a refresher: A boy named Jim Hawkins discovers a map leading to lost treasure and sets off with friends to ...
Daguerreotype portrait of Stevenson as a child Stevenson's childhood home in Heriot Row. Stevenson was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, on 13 November 1850 to Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), a leading lighthouse engineer, and his wife, Margaret Isabella (born Balfour, 1829–1897). He was christened Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson.
Home is the sailor, home from the sea, [4] And the hunter home from the hill. The ashes of his wife Fanny Stevenson, who died in California in 1914, were taken back by her daughter to Samoa in 1915 and buried beside her husband. [5] The bronze plaque for Fanny bears her Samoan name 'Aolele' (Flying Cloud in Samoan).
Underwoods is a collection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1887.It comprises two books, Book I with 38 poems in English, Book II with 16 poems in Scots.He says in the initial note that "I am from the Lothians myself; it is there I heard the language spoken about my childhood; and it is in the drawling Lothian voice that I repeat it to myself."