 | Children's poetry - 1857 - 300 pages
...passed, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. WATTS. CA8ABIANOA. 167 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 - 1857 - 164 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 he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...unheeded roll, For heavy is the weight of blood Upon the maniac's soul. CASABIANCA.1 BY MKS. HEMAm 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. MILTON. 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. * Young Casabianca, a boy about thirteen... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 350 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,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1857 - 652 pages
...youthful heroism immortalised by Mrs. Hemans in her well-known and beautiful little poem beginning — " The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled." He is said to have been the son of the Admiral of the "Drient;" and at the battle of the Nile, having... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the pove ahandoned : and perished ID the explosio der. 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,... | |
 | 1859 - 450 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 he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shoae round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | Little poems - 1860 - 160 pages
...red and white, I kneel upon the meadow-sod And THAISK MY GOD for sight. ELIZA COOK. THE HEROIO 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. O Tet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1914 - 872 pages
...resemblance to that of character in well-known poem. I refer to moving lines of gifted poetess : ' " The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ' — owing to mistaken instructions of absent Father. Your Honour standing in same loco but having... | |
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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.... 
