 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. * Who fell in the battle of Corunna, hi Spain, 1808. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe would be rioting over his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's... | |
 | Miss Pardoe (Julia) - Great Britain - 1829 - 300 pages
...England !" CHAP. XV. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shrond we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him!" Rev. C. WOIFK. A Warrior's Burial. WHEN the lady of Rossenville closed the door of the apartment in... | |
 | Theology - 1832 - 698 pages
...considered perfect. 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." Were it our purpose, however, minutely to criticise this production, we should say it was defective,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay — like a warrior taking his rest —...his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow — How the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! ' Lightly... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 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...bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'cl down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 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...word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 420 pages
...wound him ! But he lay — Kke a warrior taking his rest — With his martial cloak around him ! , 4 Few and short were the prayers we said, . And we spoke...face of the dead, " ' And we bitterly thought of the morrot<*— • 5, We thought— MIS we 'hollowed his narrow bed, And Smoothed down bis lonely pillow... | |
 | James Kennedy - Poets, English - 1830 - 506 pages
...they were the Greeks of No useless coffin enclosed his breast ; Nor in sheet nor shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his...were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word in sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.... | |
 | James Kennedy - 1830 - 502 pages
...they were the Greeks of No useless coffin enclosed his breast ; Nor in sheet nor shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his...were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word in sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1831 - 294 pages
...coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud, we bound him.; But he lay, like a warriour taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him....And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe would be rioting over his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's... | |
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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. 
