 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...  The Western Educational Review - Page 811871Full view - About this book
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 380 pages
...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...heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go Without his Father's word; That Father, faint in death below,... | |
 | Mrs. Grey (Elizabeth Caroline) - 1840 - 206 pages
...from twelve till midnight, " FLORENCE. " 3, Belgrave Square; Thursday morning." - * 1 CHAPTER XXII. " Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule...of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form." THERE are few men who have not experienced in their own persons, how perfect is the separation which... | |
 | Childhood - 1841 - 384 pages
...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...heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames rolled on—he would not go, "Without his father's word; That father faint in death below, His... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...burning decA, | Whence all but him had fled ; | The flame that lit the battle's wrecA, | Shone round Aim o'er the dead. | Yet beautiful and bright he stood,...; | A creature of heroic blood, | A proud, though child-liAe form. | The flames roll'd on — | he would not go, | Without Ais father's word;| That father,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1842 - 372 pages
...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...heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go Without his Father's word; That Father, faint in death below,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...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...of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form. The flames rolled on — he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1845 - 360 pages
...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...heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go Without his Father's word ; That Father, faint in death below,... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...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...heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames rolled on ; — he would not go Without his father's word ; . That father, — faint in death... | |
 | 1843 - 826 pages
...had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. * Mrs. Hr-mans. " Yet beautiful and bright he stood As born to rule...heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. " The flames rolled on — he wouW not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below,... | |
 | William Russell - English language - 1843 - 180 pages
...Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him | o'er the d^ad ; Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heretic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go, Without his... | |
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