 | Samuel Lover - 1858 - 394 strani
...bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk...retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 strani
...smoothed down his lonely pillowHow the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, While we were far on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit...retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 strani
...bed. And smooth' d down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head. And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll talk...him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the cloek struck the hour for retiring; 221 And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 strani
...bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow,4 That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk...heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy sullenly firing.5 (1) Lord Byron, who considered this poem one of the finest in our language, pronounced this... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1860 - 486 strani
...with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling Moonbeam's misty light and the lantern dimly burning. Lightly they'll Talk of the spirit that's gone, and...sleep on in the grave where a Briton has laid him. Again, such lines as Coleridge's — 1. Make ready my grave clothes to-m6rrow ; or Shelley's — 2.... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 strani
...narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk...retiring: And we heard the distant and random gun Tbat the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, We carved not a line, and we raised... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 strani
...bed—- And smoothed down his lonely pillow-^How the foe and the straflger would tread o'er his head, And We far aWay on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk...But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random giln That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 strani
...lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow 1 Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him 1 But half of our heavy task was done, When the bell toll'd the hour for retiring; And we heard the... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 strani
...bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk...retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 strani
...narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the strangerwould tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk...him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the dock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly... | |
| |
Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring;... 
