| Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 476 pages
...and the gallant youth perished in the expkxion of the revel, when the flame! had reached the powder. THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him...storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form ! The flames rolled on — he would not go Without his father's word ; That father,... | |
| Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 424 pages
...gallant youth perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder. THE hoy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled...storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form ! The flames rolled on — he would not go Without his father's word ; That father,... | |
| Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - English poetry - 1829 - 346 pages
...on that spot where fate had given CASABIANCA.* THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck,...storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. * Young Casablanca, a boy about thirteen years old, son to the Admiral of the Orient,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...toiling years. — Oh happiness ! how far we flee Thine own sweet paths in search of thee 1 CASABIANCA. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...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,... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 420 pages
...meet, they engage, attack and skirmish in a thonsand different ways. Campbell. 43. Casablanca.* 1 THK boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him...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... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...been abandoned ; and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder.] THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him over the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic... | |
| Old Sailor - Naval biography - 1826 - 534 pages
...been abandoned ; and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder.} The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled ; The ilarne that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood.... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...been abandoned j and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames bad reached the powder.] THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...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; That father,... | |
| Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1831 - 510 pages
...cities rose! Thou speak'st of one who doth not change — —So may our hearts repoae. CASABIANCA.s THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...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 ; That father,... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...been abandoned; and nerished in the explosion of the vessel, when the fiamea bad reached the powder.] THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. As born to rule the storm; A creature of heroic blood, Yet beautiful and bright he stood, A proud,... | |
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