 | Boston (Mass.) - 1826 - 426 pages
...in bis waving hair, And look'd from that lone post of death, Instill, yet brave despain And ibouted but once more aloud, * My father must I stay :' While o'er him fast, through tail and shroud, The wreathing fan made way. They wrapt the .hip in splendor wild, They ought tlic... | |
 | 1826 - 726 pages
...cried, " If I may yet begone ! And " — but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 216 pages
...cried, " If 1 may yet be gone !" ' —And but the booming sjiots replied, And fast the flames roll'd on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair; . And look'J from that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud,... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 424 pages
...cried, " If I may yet be gone ! And" — but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death In still yet brave despair ! And shouted but once more aloud, "... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 476 pages
...cried, " If I may yet be gone ! And" — but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death In still yet brave despair ! And shouted but once more aloud, "... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - English poetry - 1829 - 346 pages
...cried, " If I may yet be gone I And" — but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death, And shouted bat once more aloud, " My Father ! must I stay ?"... | |
 | Old Sailor - Naval biography - 1826 - 534 pages
...father, say If I yet may be gone ! And" — but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving...that lone post of death, In still yet brave despair. Awl shouted but once more aloud, " My father ! must I stay ?" While o'er him fast, through sail and... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...cried, ' If I may yet be gone ! ' — And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair ; And looked from that lone post of death, In still yet brave despair — And shouted but once more aloud,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...from that lone post of death, Upon his brow he felt their breath, In still yet brave despair— 18 And shouted but once more aloud, 'My father! must I stay?' While o'er him fast, through sail and shroua, The wreathing fires made way. They wrapped the ship in splendour wild, They caught the flag... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...cried, ' If I may yet be gone! ' — And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair; And looked from that lone post of death, In still yet brave despair — And shouted but once more aloud,... | |
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And shouted but once more aloud, "My Father! must I stay?" While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They... 
