 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...  Annual Report - Page 311868Full view - About this book
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...risk my life — Risk all — except the sacred cause I'm sworn to. \Goes out. CASABIANCA. JflSts. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...storm ; A creature of heroic blood, — A proud though childlike form. The flames rolled on — he would not go Without his father's word ; That father, faint... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pages
...Cassabianca perished in the midst of the .flames. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone...creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childish form. That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. He called aloud—' Say, father, say,... | |
 | England - Catholic youth - 1850 - 456 pages
...set down for you here. It is the pleasantest thing to think of in that terrible battle of the Nile.* The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. The next battle Nelson fought was in the Baltic Sea, at Copenhagen. The Danes had made an alliance... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1850 - 374 pages
...seownd for tiund. CASABIANCA.' MKS. HEMANS. 1. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ! The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. * 2. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud,... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1851 - 392 pages
...or three feet; as in the following example : " The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck,...storm, A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form." A less common form of the iambic stanza is that in which no verse contains more than... | |
 | Frederic Charles Cook - 1851 - 118 pages
...vessel, wben the flames had reached the powder. The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone...storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form ! The flames roll'd on — he would not go • Without his father's word ; That father,... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Elocution - 1851 - 328 pages
...voices rose A vengeance cry to God ! 15 F.'HEMANS. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone...storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike form. The flames rolled on ; he would not go Without his father's word ; That father, faint... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...the flames had reached the powder." THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had rlud ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round...storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form. The flames rolled on — he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck1 Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright...storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form ! The flames roll'd on — he would not go Without his father's word ; That father,... | |
 | 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...storm, — A creature of heroic blood, a proud, though child-like form. The flames rolled on — he would not go, without his Father's word ; That Father,... | |
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