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.... The Band of Hope Treasury - Side 131868Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1826 - 502 sider
...speak'st of one who doth not change — CASABIANCA.* 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,... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1826 - 502 sider
...strange, Where sceptred cities rose ! CASABIANCA.* 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,... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1826 - 502 sider
...strange, Where sceptred cities rose ! CASABIANCA.* 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,... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1827 - 360 sider
...— — So may our hearts repose. CASABIANCA.* 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,... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 sider
...; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. 2 The flames roll'd on—he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. 3 He call'd aloud—" Say, father, say If yet my task is done ?" He knew not that the chieftain lay... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 sider
...different ways. Campbell. 43. Casabianca.* 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 The flames roll'd on — he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 228 sider
...hearts reppse. CASAB1ANCA. 135 CASABIANCA.* •Tun 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,... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 228 sider
...he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on— he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faiut in death below, His voice no longer heard. He call'd aloud—" Say, father, say If yet my task... | |
| Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1829 - 346 sider
...of Afric's heaven Behold his bursting tears, E'en on that spot where fate had given CASABIANCA.* THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had...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,... | |
| Alaric Alexander Watts - 1829 - 424 sider
...vessel, when the flames had reached the powder. THE hoy 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... | |
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