 THE boy stood on the burning deck, 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 the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form....  The Adviser - Page 381862Full view - About this book
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1826 - 502 pages
...strange, Where sceptred cities rose ! CASABIANCA.* 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,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1826 - 502 pages
...strange, Where sceptred cities rose ! CASABIANCA.* 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,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1826 - 502 pages
...speak'st of one who doth not change — CASABIANCA.* 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,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1827 - 360 pages
...— — So may our hearts repose. CASABIANCA.* 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,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...different ways. Campbell. 43. Casabianca.* 1 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. 2 The flames roll'd on — he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1828 - 228 pages
...hearts reppse. CASAB1ANCA. 135 CASABIANCA.* •Tun 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,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 228 pages
...he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature 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, His voice no longer heard. He call'd aloud—" Say, father, say If yet my task... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - English poetry - 1829 - 346 pages
...stars of Afric's heaven Behold his bursting tears, E'en on that spot where fate had given CASABIANCA.* THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he...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,... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 424 pages
...vessel, when the flames had reached the powder. THE hoy 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... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 476 pages
...revel, when the flame! had reached the powder. 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... | |
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