 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...been abandoned : and perished in the explosion of the 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 round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | Mary O. Ward - Children - 1852 - 292 pages
...; Oh, who will help an orphan child To find her father's grave ? [*. H. SIgourney. THE HEKOIC BOY. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flames that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1852 - 682 pages
...the enquiry about the source of the Nile as a 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. Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...be*n 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 he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1853 - 420 pages
...brand beneath the cypress tree ; " Away," they cried, " young stranger, thou art free ! " CASABIANCA. 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,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1853 - 666 pages
...treat the enquiry about the source of the Nile as a 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, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | Mary (aunt, pseud.) - 1854 - 104 pages
...great Hector hangs his head, And the Black Prince goes whimpering to bed. CASIBIANCA, THE HEROIC BOY.* 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,... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - Elocution - 1854 - 460 pages
...stars, and tell yon rising sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God ! COLERIDGE. CASABIANCA. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...uhamloned : and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flame! had reached the powder. Tits 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,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1855 - 348 pages
...couple of hours, they returned to their occupation. Blackwood's Magazine. LXXXVIII. — CASABIANCA.* 1. 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.... 
