 By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And 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 his martial cloak around him.  The Annual Biography and Obituary - Side 811826Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 sider
...By the struggling moon beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin confined his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him,...taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed... | |
 | 1825 - 710 sider
...moon-beams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 327 " No useless coffin enclosed hi* bruit, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay...taking his rest — With his martial cloak around him* " Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1825 - 578 sider
...misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin confined 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. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow : But we stedfastly gazed... | |
 | 1825 - 424 sider
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his brefcst, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few — and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1825 - 606 sider
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin confined his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said , And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1825 - 620 sider
...VOL. I. CHAPTER IV. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we bound him ; He lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Woolf*. THOUSANDS were spectators of the engagement from the eminences of Boston, and its environs;... | |
 | 1825 - 508 sider
...dimly burning. ' No useless coffin enclosed his breast. Not in sheet or in shroud we wound hi m Km he lay like a Warrior taking his rest — With his martial cloak around him. ' Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1825 - 330 sider
...Commander. VOL.L CHAPTER IV. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we bound him; He lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. JToolfa. THOUSANDS were spectators of the engagement from the eminences of Boston, and its environs;... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 sider
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin confined his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shrouds we bound — but whence his name And lineage long, it suits me not to say ; Suffice it, th Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly ga/ed... | |
 | 1826 - 494 sider
...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.' '* ' I should have taken the whole,' said Shelley, ' for a rough sketch of Campbell's.' — ' No,'... | |
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