 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.  Annual Register - Page 326edited by - 1818Full view - About this book
 | British minstrel - 1848 - 480 pages
...hitterly thought on the morrow. No useless coffin confined his hreast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we hound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. We thought as we heap'd his narrow hed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 424 pages
...After he had come to an end, he repeated the third, and said it was perfect, particularly the lines, ' But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, • With his martial cloak around him.' " ' 1 should have taken the whole,' said Shelley, ' for a rough sketch of Campbell's.' ' No,' replied... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pages
...the 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 martial cloak around him. Pew and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - Elocution - 1849 - 356 pages
...discharged his farewell shot By the struggling moon-beam's misty light No useless coffin enclosed his breast With his martial cloak around him Few and short were the prayers we said We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow But half of our heavy... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1850 - 524 pages
...read it, he repeated the third stanza, and pronounced it perfect, and especially the lines: — " ' But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.' " 'I should have taken the whole,' said Shelley, ' for a rough sketch of Campbell's.' "' No,' replied... | |
 | Scotland - 1850 - 1000 pages
...aspect, even in the attitude of repose, at once arrested the eye. Tall, athletic, and dignified, " He lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him." I saw before me one of the bravest, the most distinguished, the most trusted of the Generals who fought... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...bayonets turning, By the trembling moon-beams' misty light, And our lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, Bnt like a warrior taking his rest, His martial cloak wrapt around him. Few and short were the prayers... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1850 - 544 pages
...repeated the third stanza, and pronounced it perfect, and especially the lines : — .: • I 'I " • But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial clotik around him.' " ' I should have taken the whole,' said Shelley, ' for a rough sketch of Campbell's.'... | |
 | Asenath Nicholson - Famines - 1850 - 464 pages
...chaplain, and the corpse was covered with earth." Thus they buried him at dead of night, and — " He lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak about him." His biographer says, had he written no other poetry, this poem would have entitled him... | |
 | Ireland - 1856 - 706 pages
...the 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...him* Few and short were the prayers we said, And we sroks not a word of sorrow ; But we :•: 1.11,1 th- gazed on the face that was dead And we bitterly... | |
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