 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 páginas
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 páginas
...lonely pillowHow the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, While we were far on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 páginas
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head. And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the cloek struck the hour for retiring; 221 And we heard the distant... | |
 | Samuel Lover - 1858 - 394 páginas
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1860 - 486 páginas
...with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling Moonbeam's misty light and the lantern dimly burning. Lightly they'll Talk of the spirit that's gone, and...sleep on in the grave where a Briton has laid him. Again, such lines as Coleridge's — 1. Make ready my grave clothes to-m6rrow ; or Shelley's — 2.... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 páginas
...lonely pillow-^How the foe and the straflger would tread o'er his head, And We far aWay on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 páginas
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone And...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring: And we heard the distant and... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 páginas
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow 1 Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him 1 But half of our heavy task was done, When the bell toll'd the hour for retiring; And we heard the... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 páginas
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the strangerwould tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the dock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 páginas
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant... | |
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Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 
