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 Young scholar - Sayfa 781872Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
| John Epy Lovell - 1846 - 540 sayfa
...when the dames 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...aloud : — " say, father, say If yet my task is done ?" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, father !" once again he cried,... | |
| William Russell - 1846 - 394 sayfa
...feet; as irj the following example : " The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round...creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form." A less common form of the iambic stanza is that in which no verse contains more than three iambic feet... | |
| Book - 1847 - 206 sayfa
...the flames had reached the powder. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round...aloud, " Say, father, say, If yet my task is done !" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. 38 CASABIANCA. " Speak, father !" once... | |
| Book - 1847 - 216 sayfa
...the flames had reached the powder. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round...aloud, " Say, father, say, If yet my task is done !" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. 38 CASABIANCA. " Speak, father!" once... | |
| William Draper Swan - 1844 - 184 sayfa
...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...aloud — " Say, father, say If yet my task is done ! " He knew not that the ichieftain lay Unconscious of his son. •'' Speak, father! " once again he... | |
| George Washington Bethune - 1848 - 526 sayfa
...lift them unto Heaven. C AS ABI ANC A.* THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round...aloud: — "Say, Father, say If yet my task is done ?" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. "Speak, Father!" once again he cried,... | |
| Gorham Dummer Abbott - 1848 - 168 sayfa
...see it, I will present it to them. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round...aloud—" Say, father, say, If yet my task is done." He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, father," once again he cried, "... | |
| George Washington Bethune - 1848 - 520 sayfa
...burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wrec*. Shone round him o'er tne dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to...aloud: — "Say, Father, say If yet my task is done ?" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, Father !" once again he cried,... | |
| 1876 - 396 sayfa
...call him away. Shortly after the father was killed, unknown to the lad, and the ship took fire : — Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule...father, faint in death below His voice no longer heard. ***** There came a burst of thunder sound — The boy ! — Oh ! where was he ? Ask of the winds, that... | |
| Charles Northend - 1866 - 172 sayfa
...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...blood, A proud, though childlike, form. The flames roiled on — he would not go Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
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