 | Catherine Parr Strickland Traill - Literary Collections - 1994 - 264 pages
...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 - Literary Collections - 1995 - 212 pages
...lantern dimly hurning. No useless coffin enclosed his hreast, Not in sheet nor 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 hitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollow'd his narrow hed, And... | |
 | Hugh Berrington - Great Britain - 1998 - 250 pages
...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... | |
 | John Beatty - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 404 pages
...Wolfe recur to us: " No useless coffin inclosed 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. * * * * Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not... | |
 | Bernard Cornwell - Fiction - 2009 - 338 pages
...Sharpe?" "No, my Lord." "You don't!" Cochrane sounded astonished, then again assumed his declamatory pose: "But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him" "The verses, you understand, refer to the burial of Sir John Moore. Did you know Moore?" "I met him,"... | |
 | Kenneth O. Hall, Denis Benn - Caribbean Area - 2005 - 373 pages
...rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. The Bennett parody reads thus: JAMAICAN: Not a stone was fling, not a samfie sting, Not a soul gwan... | |
 | Khin Myo Chit (Daw) - Fiction - 2005 - 136 pages
...transported over the fence to the people inside, while the mourners and friends remained out-side."Few and short were the prayers we said, and we spoke not a word of sorrow." But these incidents are nothing when compared to the one I have almost withheld, out of sheer delicacy.... | |
 | Dora Helena Tamayo Ortiz - Colombian fiction - 2005 - 835 pages
...aquel pasaje sublime "La inhumación de Sir John Moore", descrito por Wolfe en estos versos inmortales: "But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him".z Venciendo el miedo con el despecho, pues la fámula detestaba a Mardoqueo tanto como su esposa,... | |
 | David M. Bethea - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 720 pages
...have been cut). 28. His "The Burial of Sir John Moore" (1817) is quoted in Journey to Arzrum: ". . . like a warrior taking his rest / With his martial cloak around him" (Pushkin, Pss, 8:450). This poem, known in Russia through L Kozlov's translation, was published for... | |
 | Edward T. Cotham - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 224 pages
...light, And our lanterns dimly burning. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we breathed but a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And bitterly thought on the morrow. No useless coffins confined their breasts, Nor in sheets nor in shrouds... | |
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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. 
