| Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1803 - 162 pages
...sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. » When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By...the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw; And twice ere the cock-crow I dreamt it again. Methought from the battle-field's dreadful array,... | |
| France - 1904 - 518 pages
...the sky, And thousands had sunk on the ground ovcrpower'd, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die! When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By...the slain, At the dead of the night, a sweet vision I saw, And twice ere the cock crew, 1 dreamt it again. Methought, from the battle field's dreadful... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Hope - 1804 - 182 pages
...and the wounded to die ! When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scarring fagot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And twice, ere the cock crew, I dreamt it again. Methought from the battle-field's dreadful... | |
| English literature - 1805 - 590 pages
...thousands had sunk on the ground, overpower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. « TV hen, reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring faggot, that guarded the slain, * t the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And twice, ere the cock crew, I dreamt it again. Methought,... | |
| Columbia County (N.Y.) - 1804 - 450 pages
...sky, Ar.d thousands had sunk on the ground ovtrpower'd, The wear/ to deep, and the wounded to uie ! .When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring fr.gjot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, Ar.d twice, ere the... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1810 - 272 pages
...sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpow'r'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. 47 When reposing that night, on my pallet of straw, By...the slain ; At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again. Methought from the battle-field's dreadful array,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 266 pages
...sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpow'r'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By...the slain; At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again. Methought from the battle-field's dreadful array,... | |
| Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpow'r'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slai n, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again.... | |
| Scottish songs - 1816 - 378 pages
...Orm bugles sung truce, for the night cloud had lower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain, In the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And twice ere the cock crew, I dreamt it again. Far,... | |
| Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...sky ; And thousands hadnunk on the ground overpower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By...night a sweet vision 1 saw, And thrice ere the morning 1 dreamt it again* Methought from the battle-field's dreadful array, Far, tar I had roam'd on a desolate... | |
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