 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, • And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1841 - 374 pages
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...lanthorn dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet or shroud we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...lantern dimly borning. 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 ! Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gaz'd... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1841 - 366 pages
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1841 - 514 pages
...to the arduous duties that unquestionable ability entails on its possessor, he was fated to die— " Like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him." An open rupture with France appeared at hand. France herself being in a state of revolution, and disposed... | |
 | 1841 - 566 pages
...the arduous duties that unquestionable ability entails on its possessor, he was fated to die — " Like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him." An open rupture with France appeared at hand. France herself being in a state of revolution, and disposed... | |
 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - 1842 - 410 pages
...shall never forget. After he had come to " an end, he repeated the third, and said it was per" feet, particularly the lines — ' But he lay like a warrior...martial cloak around him.' " ' I should have taken the whole,' said Shelley, " ' for a rough sketch of Campbell's.' " ' No,' replied Lord Byron ; ' Campbell... | |
 | Old Humphrey - Sailors - 1842 - 366 pages
...lantern dimly burning. ' No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. ' Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...lantern dimly burning. "No useless coffin enclos'd his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud \ve wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest — With his martial cloak around him. " Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gaz'd... | |
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Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. 
