 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 476 pages
...breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death In still yet brave despair ! And shouted but once more aloud, " My father, must...sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way : They wrapt the ship in splendour wild, They caught the flag on high, And streamed above the gallant child,... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 424 pages
...breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death In still yet brave despair ! And shouted but once more aloud, " My father, must...sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way : They wrapt the ship in splendour wild, They caught the flag on high, And streamed above the gallant child,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - English poetry - 1829 - 346 pages
...felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death, And shouted bat once more aloud, " My Father ! must I stay ?" While...sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They wrapt the ship in splendour wild, They caught the flag on high, And streamed above the gallant child,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...breath, And in his waving hair; And look'd from that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud, " My father ! must...sail and shroud The wreathing fires made way. They wrapt the ship in splendour wild, They caught the flag on high, And stream'd above the gallant child,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...breath, And in his waving hair ; And looked from that lone post of death, In still yet brave despair — And shouted but once more aloud, ' My father ! must...sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They wrapt the ship in splendour wild, They caught the flag on high, And streamed above the gallant child,... | |
 | Old Sailor - Naval biography - 1826 - 534 pages
...breath, And in his waving hair, And look'd from that lone post of death, In still yet brave despair. Awl shouted but once more aloud, " My father ! must I...sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They wrapt the ship in splendour wild. They caught the flag on high, And streara'd above the gallant child.... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1831 - 510 pages
...breath, And in his waving hair; And looked from that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud "My father! must I...sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They wrapt the ship in splendour wild, They caught the flag on high, And streamed above the gallant child,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...from that lone post of death, Upon his brow he felt their breath, In still yet brave despair— 18 And shouted but once more aloud, 'My father! must I stay?' While o'er him fast, through sail and shroua, The wreathing fires made way. They wrapped the ship in splendour wild, They caught the flag... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Child rearing - 1833 - 190 pages
...of death, In still, yet brave despair ; And shouted but once more aloud, " My father, must I stay V While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud. The...above the gallant child, Like banners in the sky. Then came a burst of thunder sound — The boy — oh ! where was he 1 Ask of the winds that far around... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...breath, And in his waving hair, And look'd from that lone post of death, In still, but brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud, " My father! must...sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They wrapt the ship in splendour wild, They caught the flag on high, And stream'd above the gallant child,... | |
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And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death In still, yet brave despair; And shouted but once more aloud, "My father! must I stay? 
