 O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud...  Selections from the British Poets - Halaman 1661840Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 halaman
...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beam's...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 halaman
...farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, — By the struggling moonbeam's...prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1846 - 332 halaman
...bayonets turning, — By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning, cc 2 No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet...we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we stedfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 268 halaman
...Who ia his friend?* [Bem. 11.] An idle reason lessons the weight of the good ones you gave before. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke...; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead As we bitterly thought on the morrow.— Wolfe. On the sands of lifo Sorrow treads heavily, and leaves... | |
 | Philological Society (Great Britain) - 1854 - 270 halaman
...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...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 recital would savour of... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 halaman
...the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With...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 hollowed his... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 halaman
...with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. 3. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet...taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him . . . 5. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 halaman
...misty light, And 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...word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we hitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollow'd his narrow hed, And... | |
 | David Evans - 1999 - 686 halaman
...McCook."46 McCOOK'S RA1D TURNER'S FERRY TO FLINT RlVER JULY 27-JULY 29, 1864 No ustleti coffin enclostd his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest Wirh his martial cloak around him. — Charles Wolfe, "The Burial of Sir John Moore' McCook's troopers... | |
 | John Beatty - 1998 - 404 halaman
...comrades are deposited in their narrow grave, the lines of Wolfe recur to us: " No useless coffin inclosed his breast; Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him,...taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. * * * * Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not... | |
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