| George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...burning. No useless coffin confined his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shrouds we bound him, But he lay his name And lineage long, it suits me not to say ; Suffice it, th Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly ga/ed... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 702 pages
...an end, lie 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.' " « I should have taken the whole/ said Shelley, ' for a rough sketch of Campbell's. « No,' replied Lord... | |
| 1827 - 854 pages
...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 martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed... | |
| Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - 1827 - 500 pages
...burning. III. 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 martial cloak around him. IV. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 pages
...burning. No useless coffin confined bis breast, Xor in sheet nor in shroud we bound 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 not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed... | |
| Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 426 pages
...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 martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we stedfastly gazed... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 pages
...coffin enclosed his breast, . "~i— -; • 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... | |
| 1828 - 316 pages
...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 martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed... | |
| 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 ;... | |
| William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pages
...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 martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gaz'd... | |
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