 | John Eric Sidney Thompson - History - 1963 - 324 pages
...Correlation C. It was well worth waiting for. At one time it looked as though I was cast for the role of "The boy stood on the burning deck whence all but he had fled," but now that the flames are quenched, the passengers are rowing back to the old ship as fast as they... | |
 | Theodore M. Bernstein - Business & Economics - 1995 - 516 pages
...Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and Bartletfs Familiar Quotations present the famous line as follows: "The boy stood on the burning deck, whence all but he had fled. . . ." But Bartlett carries this footnote: "The first American edition of Mrs. Hemans's Poems (1826)... | |
 | Mary Hilton, Morag Styles, Victor Watson - Children - 1997 - 258 pages
...it sounds a little sentimental today, it also does that unusual thing - treats a child like a hero. 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,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...to be obeyed. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, (1804-1864) US author. The Blithedale Romance, ch. 2 (1852). 14 The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled. 15 So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. 4511 HEMANS Felicia 1793-1835 4526 'Casabianca' the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. 4527 'The Homes of England' The stately... | |
 | Peter Costello - Authors, Irish - 1998 - 132 pages
...Hemans. She was the author of 'The Better Land' and 'Casabianca', a favourite drawing-room party piece ('The boy stood on the burning deck,/ Whence all but he had fled ...'), and was once considered die greatest woman poet of Georgian times. She died in 1835, having... | |
 | Malcolm Archibald - Sports & Recreation - 1998 - 170 pages
...refused to leave his father's side aboard LOrient. The Battle of the Nile was in progress and both died. 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. Other forgotten seamen include the... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - Private schools - 1999 - 372 pages
...killed. His son, aged thirteen, refused to leave him and died, too. Mrs Hemans's poem, 'Casabianca'— 'The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled'— often mocked and embroidered, is about his fate. 67 Number Five lavatory: the word does not mean WC,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - Literary Collections - 2000 - 682 pages
...serve his burial; instead, it was "cut in pieces, which were distributed as relics," reports Southey.] 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,... | |
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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.... 
