 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 páginas
...gloom had thrown On Nature's still convexity ! It gives birth To sacred thought in souls of worth! He lay, like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him! The call of each sword upon liberty's aid, Shall be written in gore on the steel of its blade! From... | |
 | Frederic Charles Cook - 1851 - 118 páginas
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclos'd his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud we wound him : But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial coat around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow : But we... | |
 | Asenath Nicholson - 1851 - 464 páginas
...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... | |
 | James Spear Loring - 1852 - 762 páginas
...in the Cyclopedia. " No useless coffin enclosed his breast, — Not in sheet or in shroud they wound him ; But he lay, like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him." We have reason to believe that the above relation is mainly correct; and we have gathered from Dr.... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 360 páginas
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet or 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... | |
 | James Spear Loring - 1852 - 720 páginas
...Cyclopedia. " No useless coffin enclosed his breast, — Not in sheet or in shroud they wound him ; Bat he lay, like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him." We have reason to believe that the above relation is mainly correct; and we have gathered from Dr.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 páginas
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enelosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud, we wound him ; But he lay, like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial eloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - 1852 - 506 páginas
...bedfellow's neck, until they all formed one long confused mass of yellow hair, upon which he lay down " like a warrior taking his rest with his martial cloak around him." His triumph was greeted with general approbation. I could not, however, help feeling I was witnessing... | |
 | 1916 - 568 páginas
...lantern dimly burning. N'o useless coffin enclosed his breast. Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest 'With...martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers wo said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And... | |
 | 1924 - 1122 páginas
...endured the rigorous hardships of the bitter reconstruction period unscathed and undaunted. He lies like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him." Major Shirley was a splendid example of physical, mental and moral manhood. At the time of his death... | |
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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. 
