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. Weld's English Grammar - Página 197por Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - 228 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 páginas
...been abandoned, and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the lUmes 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... | |
| Harp - 1836 - 380 páginas
...Admiral of the Orient, who perished when that ship blew up in the battle of the Nile. MllS. HEMANS. THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled ; The Same that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 188 páginas
...abandoned; and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames reached the powder magazine. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled: The flameUhat lit the battle's wreck: Shone round him o'er the dead: Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
| Samuel Putnam - 1836 - 226 páginas
...sir, to come to wait 011 you about it, for I thought you would like to hear the news. 1 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... | |
| Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 páginas
...been abandoned ; and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames 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... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 páginas
...been abandoned, and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames bad reached tho powder.] The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round hirn o'er the dead. i Yet beautiful and bright... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1836 - 472 páginas
...rose! Thou speak' st of one who doth not change — — So may our hearts repose. CASABIANCA.» TUE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit'thc battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he... | |
| Gertrude (fict. name.) - 1837 - 238 páginas
...has heard it, he will not be so likely again to disobey his father, on account of a little rain. " 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,... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 páginas
...abandoned ; and perished in to* explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder. 1. THE boy stood on the burning deck, , Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the batik's wreck. Shone round him o'er the dead. 2. Yet beautiful and bright... | |
| Chronicles of the sea - 1838 - 488 páginas
...The son of the Admiral of the Orient, who perished when that ship blew up at the battle of the Nile. 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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