THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.... The Third Reader for Primary Schools - Page 148by George Stillman Hillard - 1878Full view - About this book
| Mrs. Hemans - 1826 - 502 pages
...it roll'd. Let there be silence, deep and strange, Where sceptred cities rose ! CASABIANCA.* THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had...the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud,... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1826 - 502 pages
...it roll'd. Let there be silence, deep and strange, Where sceptred cities rose ! CASABIANCA.* THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had...the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud,... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1826 - 528 pages
...strange, Where sceptred cities rose ! Thou speak'st of one who doth not change— CASABIANCA.* THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had...the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud,... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1826 - 698 pages
...remainder biscuit," and resigns himself to his obscure destiny and the dog-days. Y '2 С. W. The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled...the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud,... | |
| 1826 - 726 pages
...remainder biscuit," and resigns himself to his obscure destiny and the dog-davs. CASABIANCA." The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flarae that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1827 - 360 pages
...rose ! Thou speak'st of one who doth not change — — So may our hearts repose. CASABIANCA* THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had...the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud,... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...they engage, attack and skirmish in a thousand different ways. Campbell. 43. Casabianca.* 1 THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had...the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. 2 The flames roll'd on — he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below,... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1828 - 228 pages
...strange, Where sceptred cities rose ! Jlflau speak'st of one who doth not change ~ CASABIANCA.* •Tun boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had...the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud,... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 216 pages
...and strange. Where sceptred cities rose ! Thou speak'st of one who doth not change — CASABIANCA.* THE hoy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; ' The flame that lit the batde's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. . Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rnle... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 228 pages
...of gold; And the still midnight hears the sound, Ev'n as when first it roll'd. CASABIANCA.t THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the hattle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the... | |
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