| American poetry - 1855 - 458 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 dearh, And shouted but once more aloud, " My father ! must I stay ?" While o'er him fast, through sail... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - Poetry - 1855 - 620 pages
...but the booming shots replied, And fast the tlatnes rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breutb, And in his waving hair; And looked from that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud " My father ! must I stay 1" While o'er him fast through sail and shroud,... | |
| Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 pages
...he cried, " If I may yet be gone !" And hut the booming shot replied, And fast the flames roll'd on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And look'd from that lone post of death In still, but brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud "... | |
| Children's poetry - 1857 - 300 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...that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud, " My Father ! must I stay ? " . While o'er him fast, through sail... | |
| Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 164 pages
...Speak, father ! " once again he cried, " If I may yet be gone ! And " But the booming shots replied, Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving...that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair : — And shouted but once more aloud, " My father ! must I stay ? " While o'er him fast, through sail... | |
| Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 350 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...that lone post of death in still, yet brave despair ! 4. He shouted yet once more aloud, " My father ! must I stay ? " While o'er him fast, through sail... | |
| Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 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...that lone post of death In still yet brave despair ; ' Casablanca, a boy about thirteen years old, son to the Admiral of the Orient, remained at his post,... | |
| English poetry - 1857 - 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...And looked from that lone post of death In still, but brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud, " My Father ! must I stay ? " While o'er him fast,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...chieftain lay unconscious of his son. 2 And but the booming shots replied, and fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, and in his waving hair, 1 7. " Speak, father!" once again he eried, " if I may yet be gone! " And looked from that lone post... | |
| Worthy Putnam - Elocution - 1858 - 420 pages
...5. " Speak, father ! " once again he cried, " If I may yet be gone ! And" — but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. 6. Upon his...shouted but once more aloud, " My father ! must I stay 1 " While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. 8. They wrapt the ship... | |
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