 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 pages
...darkly ; at dead of night, 3 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 ! 4 Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly... | |
 | Richard Thomson - 1828 - 426 pages
...continued to pace the Church, when others withdrew to their Taverns and Ordinaries. There he lay, " i like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him," in his hood and shirt of mail, and clothed in his splendid tabard of Gules, with golden crosslets ;... | |
 | Miss Pardoe (Julia) - 1829 - 300 pages
...the throne of England !" CHAP. XV. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shrond we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him!" Rev. C. WOIFK. A Warrior's Burial. WHEN the lady of Rossenville closed the door of the apartment in... | |
 | 1832 - 698 pages
...he considered perfect. 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." Were it our purpose, however, minutely to criticise this production, we should say it was defective,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern, dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in, sheet, nor in shroud, we bound him ; But he lay, like a warriour taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. * Who fell in the battle of Corunna, hi... | |
 | James Kennedy - 1830 - 502 pages
...the Greeks, as if they were the Greeks of No useless coffin enclosed his breast ; Nor in sheet nor shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking...were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word in sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.... | |
 | James Kennedy - 1830 - 506 pages
...the Greeks, as if they were the Greeks of No useless coffin enclosed his breast ; Nor in sheet nor shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking...were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word in sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.... | |
 | 1831 - 272 pages
...of Corunna. lite No useless coffin pnclosed }ijs breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound Him; Bu he lay like a warrior taking his rest. With his martial cloak around him. Few an4 short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word in sorrow ; But we stedfustly gazed on... | |
 | 1856 - 520 pages
...the hill-side — the Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman — but in an honourable grave ; each sleeping " like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him," in a soldier's grave, though destitute of " storied urn and animated bust," yet cherished in the country's... | |
 | John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 pages
...moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern, dimly burning. 3. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud, we bound him; But he lay, like...taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. 162 4. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly... | |
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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. 
