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Ah, Carolina! well the tear May dew thy cheek; thy clasped hands rear In passion, o'er their tombless bier,   Thy fallen chivalry!

From War Poetry of the South by Various

The little urn that sufficed for the mighty lord 279 is despoiled of his very dust; but the tombless shade of the kingly freeman still guards the coasts, and rests upon the seas.

From Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Leave yon tender boy to shed Tear-drops o'er the tombless dead: Like the mighty chiefs of old, Thou art cast in sterner mould.

From Enthusiasm and Other Poems by Moodie, Susanna

Leucaspis there, and Lycia's chief he viewed, Orontes, joyless, tombless, whom of late, Sea-tost from Troy, the blustering South pursued, 397 And ship and crew at once whelmed in the rolling flood.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

Shroudless and tombless they sank to their rest, While o’er their ashes the starry fold flying Wraps the proud eagle they roused from his nest!

From How the Flag Became Old Glory by Valentine, A. C.