 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 Seiten
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast. Not in sheet or iu shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With...cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we »aid, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was deM, And we... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 Seiten
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enelosed 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. V Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed... | |
 | M. L'Estrange - 1851 - 100 Seiten
...Safe in the arms of everlasting might, And circled with the beams of uncreated light. CHAPTER III. But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. — C. Wolfe. MRS. WRIGHT took upon herself the task of preparing our mourning, which she nearly executed... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 Seiten
...gloom had thrown On Nature's still convexity ! It gives birth To sacred thought in souls of worth! He lay, like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him! The call of each sword upon liberty's aid, Shall be written in gore on the steel of its blade! From... | |
 | Frederic Charles Cook - 1851 - 118 Seiten
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclos'd his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud we wound him : But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial coat around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow : But we... | |
 | Asenath Nicholson - 1851 - 464 Seiten
...chaplain, and the corpse was covered with earth." Thus they buried him at dead of night, and — " He lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak about him." His biographer says, had he written no other poetry, this poem would have entitled him... | |
 | James Spear Loring - 1852 - 762 Seiten
...in the Cyclopedia. " No useless coffin enclosed his breast, — Not in sheet or in shroud they wound him ; But he lay, like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him." We have reason to believe that the above relation is mainly correct; and we have gathered from Dr.... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 360 Seiten
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Pew and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed... | |
 | James Spear Loring - 1852 - 720 Seiten
...Cyclopedia. " No useless coffin enclosed his breast, — Not in sheet or in shroud they wound him ; Bat he lay, like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him." We have reason to believe that the above relation is mainly correct; and we have gathered from Dr.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 Seiten
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enelosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud, we wound him ; But he lay, like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial eloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we... | |
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By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 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. 
