 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 274 pages
...belonged to him. Was he worthy of imitation ? What does that mean ? XLIL— CASABIANCA. FELICIA HEMANS. 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. 2. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales) - 1874 - 582 pages
...vassal world his flag defied : He smote it at a blow — and died. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. 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. The flames roll'd on. He would not... | |
 | William Edward Mullins - 1874 - 80 pages
...cannot tell," said he, " But 'twas a famous victory." ROBERT SOUTHEY. (1774-1843.) II.— 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. 4 Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry - 1875 - 168 pages
...all but firm, like me, And conquest soon will follow ! C. Dibdin " 16* CA SA BIA ffCA 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 ; Yet beautiful and bright he stood... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 272 pages
...; but which, when embraced with too much ardour, will perish in the grasp. LORD KAMES. CASABIANCA. "The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wrfck Shone round him o'er the dead. Tet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Egypt - 1875 - 620 pages
...Casabianca, and his son, so beautifully commemorated by Mrs. Hemans, in the touching lines commencing — " The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled," io. A few miles to the eastward of Abookeer is an opening, called Madeeah the "Ford," or "Ferry," by... | |
 | T W M - 1876 - 264 pages
...leave without his father's permission. The flames at last reached the powder, and he perished. 3;?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,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry, English - 1877 - 326 pages
...and all but firm, like me, And conquest soon will follow ! C. Dibdin * 16 * 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 ; Yet beautiful and bright he stood... | |
 | William Swinton - English language - 1877 - 278 pages
...will. si. Who you spend your evenings with is well known. 7. So you must ride On horseback after we. 8. The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled. 9. The money is to be divided between the three brothers. 10. No one but he should be about the king.... | |
 | William Davidson (B.A.) - 1877 - 240 pages
...sake." 9. You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me : Then plain and right must my possession be. JO. The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled. 11. Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face. 12. Albeit you... | |
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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.... 
