 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...dimly hurning, cc 2 No useless coffin enclosed his hreast, 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... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin confined 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 ; And we stedfastly gazed... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1838 - 316 pages
...lantern dimly burning. 3 No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay — like a warrior taking his rest — With his martial cloak around him! 4 Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed... | |
 | William Beattie - Scotland - 1838 - 306 pages
...Britain, III. 19. " 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." The founder of this chapel, according to the authority already quoted, lived in great state at his... | |
 | Fashion - 460 pages
...magnificent room, except the taste with which it is fitted up. The figure of Napoleon, as he is laid, " like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him," is highly imposing, and strikes the beholder with reverence; while turning to the opposite side, we... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...lantern dimly burning. 3 No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay — like a warrior taking his rest — With his martial cloak around him! 4 Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed... | |
 | 1841 - 986 pages
...of the stanzas : — 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. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we Btedfastly gazed... | |
 | Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 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 in sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1856 - 520 pages
...the hill-side — the Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman — but in an honourable grave ; each sleeping " like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him," in a soldier's grave, though destitute of " storied urn and animated bust," yet cherished in the country's... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
