 | John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings. THE NEW SPEAKER. 157 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,... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...and try to win it ; The house to me may lowly be, If I but like the people in it ! 129. 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,... | |
 | Light - 1861 - 124 pages
...shall we only render The tribute of our words ? No, while our hearts are tender, 62 CASABIANCA. HE 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... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 pages
...blew, To make one leaf the next to kiss That closely by it grew. M. Drayton xxv CASABIANCA A True Story 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. The flames roll'd on. He would not... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 374 pages
...Rath-er than dis-o-bey his fath-er, he would die in the flames. — Abbott. LESSON LXXXIII. CASABIANCA. The boy stood on the burn-ing deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the bat-tle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beau-ti-ful and bright he stood,... | |
 | William Henry Gray - 1862 - 290 pages
...by his father to remain on board ship, during a battle, till he sent orders for him to leave it:— "The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled; The flames that lit the battle's wreek, Shone round him—o'er the dead! Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 pages
...a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him — alone with his glory ! D WOLFE. 24. CASABIANCA* 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,... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 pages
...ci.x. The Vidl of Arms ... Mrs. Hemans . . 381 PLAYTIME WITH THE POETS. i CASA BIANCA. (A TBOT STOBT.) 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,... | |
 | Golden gleanings - 1863 - 342 pages
...bloom ; For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb, It is there ; it is there, my child. 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,... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...brimming river, For men may come, and men may go, But I go on for ever. CASA BIANCA.— Mrs. Hemans. 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.... 
