 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....  Songs for the Little Ones at Home - Page 269by Mary O. Ward - 1852 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Daniel Morell - Oral reading - 1874 - 336 pages
...post until further orders. 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 born1 to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike form. The flames rolled... | |
 | William Edward Mullins - 1874 - 80 pages
...cannot tell," said he, " But 'twas a famous victory." ROBERT SOUTHEY. (1774-1843.) II.— 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. 4 Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales) - 1874 - 582 pages
...vassal world his flag defied : He smote it at a blow — and died. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. 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. The flames roll'd on. He would not... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 272 pages
...; but which, when embraced with too much ardour, will perish in the grasp. LORD KAMES. CASABIANCA. "The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wrfck Shone round him o'er the dead. Tet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry - 1875 - 168 pages
...all but firm, like me, And conquest soon will follow ! C. Dibdin " 16* CA SA BIA ffCA A True Story 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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...England," illustrated by Miss LB Humphrey, was published in Boston by Lee and Shepard in 1883. 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...superiority. (1. 29-32) LiTM; NBLV; NePoEA; PoRA; TwCP FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (1783-1835) Casablanca 1 t hangs on the bough. (V, i) AWP; BoTP; CH; CTC; E1L; FaBV; GN; He flame that lit the battle's wreck. Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | Anne Kostelanetz Mellor - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 292 pages
...realm, they prove futile and self-destructive, as Hemans suggested in her most famous poem, Casablanca: 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,... | |
 | John Eric Sidney Thompson - History - 1963 - 324 pages
...Correlation C. It was well worth waiting for. At one time it looked as though I was cast for the role of "The boy stood on the burning deck whence all but he had fled," but now that the flames are quenched, the passengers are rowing back to the old ship as fast as they... | |
 | Theodore M. Bernstein - Business & Economics - 1995 - 516 pages
...Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and Bartletfs Familiar Quotations present the famous line as follows: "The boy stood on the burning deck, whence all but he had fled. . . ." But Bartlett carries this footnote: "The first American edition of Mrs. Hemans's Poems (1826)... | |
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