 By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. 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.  Cyclopædia of English literature - Page 410by Robert Chambers - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, or in shroud, we hound him; But he lay, like a warrior taking his rest, With his...word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1844 - 452 pages
...lantern dimly burning. 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...a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the lace that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollow'd his narrow bed,... | |
 | Printers - 1844 - 328 pages
...dimly burning. • No useless coffin confln'd his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him ! But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his...we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gaz'd on the face of the dm:. And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we heap'd his narrow... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 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...bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 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...bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bod, And smooth'd down his lonelv pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 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, With his...word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And... | |
 | sir Charles Gavan Duffy - Ballads, Irish - 1845 - 262 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...a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the fnce that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollow'd his narrow !lcd,... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclos'd his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his...we spoke not a word of sorrow : But we steadfastly gaz'd on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. 1 He was killed at Corunna,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...the prayers 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,...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 o'er his... | |
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