 | Jacob Abbott, Old Harlo - 1835 - 262 Seiten
...poetry, and as the children who read this book may like to see it, it is given here : CASABIANCA. 1. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled; The flame that Jit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. 2. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - 1843 - 264 Seiten
...poetry, and as the children who lead this book may like to see it, it is given here : CASABIANCA. 1. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled; The fkme that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. 2. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 Seiten
...of the grave. Do we not perish'?—Father, hear, and save! Thine is our spirits' trust! CASABIANCA2. Whence all but he had fled! The flame that lit the battle's wreck, THE boy stood on the burning deck Shone round him o'er the dead . As born to rule the storm; A creature... | |
 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1846 - 144 Seiten
...And brightly the fire-crested billows are gleaming, And wildly from Mullagh the eagles are screaming. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled; The names that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. • More cruel far Than when the... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - 1848 - 520 Seiten
...thought allied, Never to mortals given, — Oh ! lay thy lovely dreams aside, Or lift them unto Heaven. THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wrec*. Shone round him o'er tne dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm;... | |
 | Mary O. Ward - 1852 - 292 Seiten
...; 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,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 Seiten
...explosion of the reuel, when the flames had reached the powder. THE boy stood on the burning deek, whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreek shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, as born to rule the storm,... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1854 - 460 Seiten
...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, As born to rule the... | |
 | 1857 - 652 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1859 - 450 Seiten
...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, As born to rule the storm ; A creature... | |
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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, Shoae round him o'er the dead. 
