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" ... 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 prayers we said And we spoke... "
Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and Others: Held in Cephalonia, a ... - Page 293
by James Kennedy - 1830 - 461 pages
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The London Saturday journal, Volumes 1-4

1841 - 986 pages
...around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we Btedfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. • * • Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not...
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...thought' . . of the morrow'. We thought', as we hollowed his narrow bed', And smoothed down his lowly pillow', That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head', And we' . . . for away o'er the billow'. Lightly they'll speak of the spirit that's gone', And o'er his cold...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 2

English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...his martial cloak around him. 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...bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread...
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Arundines Cami; sive, Musarum Cantabrigiensium lusus canori, collegit atque ...

Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought...tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! ARUNDINES CAMI. VEXATA QU^ESTIO. Si Terra e pistis constaret inhospita pomis, Si foret Oceanus vasti...
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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...and short were the prayers we said; | And we spoAe not a word of sorrow ; | But we steadfastly gaz'd on the face of the dead; | And we bitterly thought of the morrow. | We thought, as we hallow'd Ais narrow bed, | And smooth'd down Ais lonely pillow, | That the foe, and the stranger would...
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The book of poetry [ed. by B.G. Johns].

Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gaz'd on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth' d down his lowly pillow, The foe and the stranger would tread...
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Poetry for Schools: Designed for Reading and Recitation : the Whole Selected ...

Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...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. We thought...the stranger would tread o'er his head And we far awav on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid...
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Book of the Poets: The Modern Poets of the Nineteenth Century

American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...With his martial cloak around him. 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...bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread...
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The School Reader: Fourth Book. Containing Instructions in the Elementary ...

Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...And our lanterns dimly burning. 3. 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. 4. We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and...
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Gems of the Modern Poets: With Biographical Notices

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1842 - 440 pages
...dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; — But little...
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