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 Band of Hope Treasury - Page 131868Full view - About this book
| 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 - 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,... | |
| 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 - 1828 - 418 pages
...; 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 below, His voice no longer heard. 3 He call'd aloud—" Say, father, say If yet my task is done ?" He knew not that the chieftain lay... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 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 - 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 - 1829 - 346 pages
...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 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,... | |
| Alaric Alexander Watts - 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... | |
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