| George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring fn^got that guarded the slain ; At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning... | |
| Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring fagot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 404 pages
...sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring fagot that guarded the slain ; At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 508 pages
...sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring fagot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning... | |
| Scottish ballads and songs - 1854 - 606 pages
...sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring fagot that guarded the slain ; At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning... | |
| Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1855 - 592 pages
...sky, And thousands had sunk on the ground, overpower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die ! When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slaiu ; At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, Aud twice 'ere the cock crew I dreamt it again.... | |
| John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 pages
...sky ; 4nd thousands had sunk on the ground overpower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring fagot that guarded the slaiu ; At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning... | |
| Charles Godfrey Leland - Dreams - 1856 - 296 pages
...sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By...the battle-field's dreadful array, Far, far I had roamed on a desolate track ; 'Twas autumn — and sunshine arose on the way, To the home of my fathers... | |
| Peter Parley (pseud.), Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Europe - 1856 - 408 pages
...the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to rest and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By...a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamed it again. Mcthought from the battle-field's dreadful array, Far, far I had roamed on a desolate... | |
| English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...sleep, and the wounded to die. When, reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf -scaring faggot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the...the morning I dreamt it again. Methought from the battle - field's dreadful array, Far, far I had roam'd on a desolate track ; Twas autumn, and sunshine... | |
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