 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pagine
...the conception of the bed and pillow gracefully harmonises :h that of the " warrior taking his rest." 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... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pagine
...pillow) That the fo'e and the stran'ger/ would tread o'er his h'ead, And w'e far aw'ay/ on the biriow. Lig'htly they'll talk of the spi'rit/ that's g'one, And o'er his cold a'shes/ upbraid h'im ; And lit'tle he'll re'ck (if they let him sleep o'n) In the gra've/ where a B'riton has laid hi'm... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 pagine
...and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we, far away o'er the billow. Lightly they'll speak 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 his comrades have laid him. 20* and romantic... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pagine
...and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk o 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... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 312 pagine
...and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we, far away o'er the billow. Lightly they'll speak of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; Bat little he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where his comrades have laid him. 20*... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 pagine
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! 6. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold asjhes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they'll let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1985 - 1106 pagine
...are revealed by tearing away the skin, showed he had been scalped, though still living. Chapter XXI "Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he'll reck, if they'll let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him." Charles... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 2000 - 324 pagine
...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...that's gone. And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him,-^ But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant... | |
 | 2013 - 249 pagine
...his narrow bed And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er Ms head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll...gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reek, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him," 85. THE VICTOEY OF... | |
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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;... 
