 | William Russell - Elocution - 1851 - 392 pages
...iambic feet; and the second and fourth, six syllables, or three feet; as in the following example : " The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him...storm, A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form." A less common form of the iambic stanza is that in which no verse contains more than... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...into sentences : Shone and Shun. Plelm and Elm. Hair, Air, and Hare. Fair and Fare. More and Moor. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck1 Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - Ireland - 1851 - 388 pages
...Their mother survived them all. The only living descendant of this family now resides in New York. * " The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flames that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead." Mas. HEMAN'S POEHB. CHAPTER XXV.... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...been abandoned, and perished in lh« explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder." THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had rlud ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...Teasel, when the names had reached the powder. THE boy stood on the burning deck, whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck shone...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,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1852 - 682 pages
...violent effort of a distempered fancy." 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. The flames roll'd on — he would not go Without his Father's word ; That Father,... | |
 | David McCullough - Biography & Autobiography - 1982 - 448 pages
...Curtis as a standard of moral rectitude and character. He had been "young Casabianca Roosevelt [who] 'stood on the burning deck whence all but him had fled' . . ." The Chicago Times called him very simply "the most remarkable young politician of the day," and then made... | |
 | A. B. Chambers - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 221 pages
...because others, for sins not yet committed, may have had to memorize Mrs. Hemans's celebrated lines: The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. 15 In Marvell's version of a comparable scene, it is "Fortunate boy!"; this is the Scot named "Douglas,"... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (1783-1835) Casablanca 1 The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he FaBV; GN; HelP; NAEL-1; NBLV; childlike form. (1. 1—8) HAP; KS; NoAM; NoP If Out-Herods Herod. Pray You, Avoid It 12 And in their... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...Boston by Lee and Shepard in 1883. Casabianca The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone...storm! A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form! The flames rolPd on — he would not go Without his Father's word; That Father, faint... | |
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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 form. 
