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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. Few and short were the... "
The flowers of literature, or, Encyclopædia of anecdote, a coll. by W. Oxberry - Página 170
editado por - 1821
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volumen2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...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...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volumen2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...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 steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as...
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The Quaver; or, Songster's pocket companion

Quaver - 1844 - 552 páginas
...with our bayonets turning, By the straggling moon-beams' misty light, And our lanterns dimly burning. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought on the morrow. No useless coffin...
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The Modern Poetical Speaker; Or, a Collection of Pieces Adapted for ...

Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 páginas
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclos'd his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With...we said, And 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. 1 He was killed...
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Proceedings - Philological Society, London, Volumen5

Philological Society (Great Britain) - 1854 - 270 páginas
...with some passages of Campbell's Lochiel, or with Wolfe's Burial of Sir John Moore, as in the lines, Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the fSce of the dead, And we bitterly thought on the morrow. But such a mode of...
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The Original Rhythmical Grammar of the English Language

James Chapman - 378 páginas
...moon-beam1s misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly looked on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we...
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Famous Poems from Bygone Days

Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 páginas
...the lantern dimly hurning. No useless coffin enclosed his hreast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we hitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we...
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Britain in the Nineties: The Politics of Paradox

Hugh Berrington - 1998 - 250 páginas
...and who was his predecessor as leader, stands alone. Even the poll tax was buried, at dead of night. 'Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow.'12 Our Rip van Winkle would have wondered whether Conservative fratricide was something borrowed...
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Sharpe's Devil: Napoleon and South America, 1820-1821

Bernard Cornwell - 2009 - 338 páginas
...God," Harper crossed himself, then looked with horror at Sharpe. Lord Cochrane reverted to poetry: "Few and short were the prayers we said. And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead. And we bitterly thought of the morrow." Then His Lordship...
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Caribbean Imperatives: Regional Governance and Integrated Development

Kenneth O. Hall, Denis Benn - 2005 - 373 páginas
...rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. The Bennett parody...
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