 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 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... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...moonbeam'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...were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word in sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 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...cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said,8 And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead,8 And... | |
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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. 
