 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...  The Third Reader: For Primary Schools - Page 152by George Stillman Hillard, Loomis Joseph Campbell - 1864 - 204 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1826 - 726 pages
...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, As born to rule...of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames rolled on — he would not go, Without his Father's word ; That Father, faint in death below,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1826 - 502 pages
...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...of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go, Without his father's word ; * Young Casablanca, a boy about... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1826 - 502 pages
...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...of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on—he would not go, Without his father's word; * Young Casablanca, a boy about... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1826 - 502 pages
...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...of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on — be would not go, Without his father's word ; * Young Casabianca, a boy about... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1827 - 360 pages
...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...of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 228 pages
...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...of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on— he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faiut in death below,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1828 - 228 pages
...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...of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames rpll'd on— he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 216 pages
...batde's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. . Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rnle the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on— he would not go, \Vitlioiil his father's word; That father, faint in d<<al!i... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 424 pages
...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...creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form ! The flames rolled on — he would not go Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - English poetry - 1829 - 346 pages
...Whence all but he 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...of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. * Young Casablanca, a boy about thirteen years old, son to the Admiral of the Orient, remained at his... | |
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