 | 1843 - 778 pàgines
...the ship had taken fire. There was no one to order him to quit, and he nobly perished at hrepost. *" The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fleil ; ТЫ; flame that lit the battle's wreek, Shone round him o'er the dead. > * Mrs. Hcrnans. "Yet... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 70 pàgines
...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...that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. * Young Casabianca, a boy about thirteen years old, son to the admiral of the Orient, remained... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - 428 pàgines
...iambic feet; and the second and fourth, six syllables, or three feet; as in the following example : " The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him...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,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 pàgines
...Young Ca.ablanra, a boy about thirte ' post (in the wen abandon ached the po rem •II tl Ui« Dame The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him...had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, fehone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1845 - 176 pàgines
...vesse., when the flames had reached the powder. This is an instance ?t obedience even unto death.] 1. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...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,... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pàgines
...— Go, share thy lot with him. 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, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1845 - 382 pàgines
...alas ! yet joy ! — my son, my son ! 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, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A... | |
 | William Russell - 1845 - 410 pàgines
...iambic feet; and the second and fourth, six syllables, 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, Shone round him, o'er the dead ; " Yet beautiful and bright... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1846 - 540 pàgines
...been abandoned, and perished in the explosion of tho vessel, when the dames had reached the powder. The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him...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... | |
 | William Russell - 1846 - 394 pàgines
...iambic feet; and the second and fourth, six syllables, or three feet; as irj the following example : " The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him...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,... | |
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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. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form. 
