 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
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud, we bound 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 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...prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (of the 43rd Light Infantry.) - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1847 - 176 pages
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound Mm; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his...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 lus... | |
 | Songs, English - 1847 - 906 pages
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin confined his breast, Nor in sheet or shroud we bound 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 heap'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd... | |
 | Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office, Richard Cannon - 1847 - 180 pages
...dimly burning 1 1809 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...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedt'astly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow ! We thought, as we... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 pages
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin confined his breast, Not in sheet nor iu shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his...prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS LIBRARY. 43 But we stedfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin confined his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his...prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS LIBRARY. 43 at we stedfastly gazed on the face of the dead, f' And we... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 424 pages
...lanthorn 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 smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread... | |
 | Richard Cannon - 1848 - 174 pages
...dimly burning! 1809 -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...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we stedi'astly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow ! We thought, as we... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 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...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 hollowed... | |
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