| Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1851 - 328 pągines
...children onward trod, And sang ; and their young voices rose A vengeance cry to God ! 15 F.'HEMANS. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but...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 - 1851 - 392 pągines
...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,... | |
| Frederic Charles Cook - 1851 - 118 pągines
...the gallant youth perished in the explosion of the vessel, wben the flames 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... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pągines
...into sentences : Shone and Shun. Plelm and Elm. Hair, Air, and Hare. Fair and Fare. More and Moor. THE 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 he stood, As born to rule the storm... | |
| Henry Martyn Field - 1851 - 388 pągines
...Their mother survived them all. The only living descendant of this family now resides in New York. * " The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flames that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead." Mas. HEMAN'S POEHB. CHAPTER XXV.... | |
| John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pągines
...been abandoned, and perished in lh« explosion of the vessel, when 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 him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1852 - 178 pągines
...vesse.. when the Humps had reached the powder. This is an instance x' nfe even unto death.] 1. THE hoy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had...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,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pągines
...Teasel, when the names 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 shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, as born to rule the storm, — A creature of heroic blood,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pągines
...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 shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, as born to rule the storm, — A creature of heroic blood,... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1852 - 682 pągines
...violent effort of a distempered fancy." 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... | |
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