 | Josiah Bushnell Grinnell - 1891 - 464 pages
...found Master Eldridge, 'the boy father of the man,' solus, and with eloquent aptness declaiming: ' The boy stood on the burning deck whence all but him had fled ' ; and, knowing the boy, I confidently predict he will never hie to Canada, nor vacate his trust so... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1826 - 502 pages
...first it roll'd. Let there be silence, deep and 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... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1826 - 502 pages
...and strange, Where sceptred cities rose ! Thou 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... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1826 - 502 pages
...first it roll'd. Let there be silence, deep and 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... | |
 | 1826 - 726 pages
...as " remainder biscuit," and resigns himself to his obscure destiny and the dog-davs. CASABIANCA." The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flarae that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1827 - 360 pages
...cities rose ! Thou speak'st of one who doth not change — — 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 pages
...nations meet, they engage, attack and skirmish in a thousand different ways. Campbell. 43. Casablanca* 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 —... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 228 pages
...and strange, Where sceptred cities rose ! Thou, speak'st of one who doth not change — CASABIANCA.t THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the hattle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 228 pages
...Tfiau^speak'st of one who doth not chaDgc — —So may our 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... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1829 - 476 pages
...and the gallant youth perished in the expkxion of the revel, when the flame! 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 round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he... | |
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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. 
