 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. Few and short were the...  A Household Book of English Poetry - Página 2571870 - 438 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1862 - 490 páginas
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed 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 hollow'd his narrow bed, And... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825
...lantern dimly burning. "No useless coffin enclos'd his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud \ve wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest — With...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. " We thought, as we hollow'd... | |
 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - 1842 - 371 páginas
...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...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. We thought, as we hollow'd... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1842 - 340 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 304 páginas
...our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And our lanterns dimly burning. 3. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. 4. We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed, And... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 448 páginas
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed 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 hollow'd his narrow bed, And... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him J whole of its content« upon the plains of the Camatic....of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844
...lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844
...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... | |
 | 1844
...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,... | |
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