 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 278 páginas
...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,...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we... | |
 | 1836 - 418 páginas
...is met, and now, prostrate on that car, held down by the icy hands of its first occupant, he lies " like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him." It hurries on unretarded in its course, and now, aided by the north wind, may be seen gliding over... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 páginas
...By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him...word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed on the face that was dead. And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 páginas
...the struggling moonbeams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 3. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him;...taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him . . . 5. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin, and precision ends. (1. 33—36) HelP; MOS; NOBA; QFR 2 OBTV; TW EnRP: OBNC; PoEL-4; Son MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE (1861-1907) Unwelc (1. 11—12) 3 We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone. But we left him alone with his glory.... | |
 | Catherine Parr Strickland Traill - 1994 - 264 páginas
...how did you feel when hearing, and sight, and speech were all shut out?" asked Kate Dalton. "I felt like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him." "Nonsense, my dear; but how did you feel? Do tell me." "Exactly like a person who had been buried alive,... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 páginas
...misty light, And the lantern dimly hurning. No useless coffin enclosed his hreast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we hitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we... | |
 | David Evans - 1999 - 686 páginas
...McCook."46 McCOOK'S RA1D TURNER'S FERRY TO FLINT RlVER JULY 27-JULY 29, 1864 No ustleti coffin enclostd his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest Wirh his martial cloak around him. — Charles Wolfe, "The Burial of Sir John Moore' McCook's troopers... | |
 | John Beatty - 1998 - 404 páginas
...comrades are deposited in their narrow grave, the lines of Wolfe recur to us: " No useless coffin inclosed his breast; Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him,...taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. * * * * Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not... | |
 | Hugh Berrington - 1998 - 250 páginas
...and who was his predecessor as leader, stands alone. Even the poll tax was buried, at dead of night. 'Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow.'12 Our Rip van Winkle would have wondered whether Conservative fratricide was something borrowed... | |
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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. 
