 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.  Elson Grammar School Readers - Page 51by William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1911Full 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 the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames rolled on — he would not go, Without his Father's word... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | 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 below,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 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 - 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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