 | William Russell - 1843 - 192 páginas
...battle's wreck, Shone round him | o'er the de'ad ; Yet beautiful and bright he stood , As born to rille the storm ; A creature of 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, His voice... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1843 - 828 páginas
...deck Whence all Iwt he had fled ; The flame that iit the battle's wivek Shone round him on the dend. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; » A crenture of heroic blood. A proud, though child-like form. The flames rolled on — he would not go... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - 428 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1845 - 382 páginas
...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...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, His voice... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 páginas
...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...blood, A proud, though childlike form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
 | William Russell - 1845 - 410 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1845 - 176 páginas
...Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. 2. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule...of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. 3. The flames rolled on — he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 páginas
...rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. 3. The flames roll'd on — he would not go, Without his father's word...father, faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. 4. He call'd aloud — " Say, father, say If yet my task is done ?" He knew not that the chieftain... | |
 | 1876 - 396 páginas
...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... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1849 - 420 páginas
...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...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, His voice... | |
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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. 
