 | Mrs. Hemans - 1826 - 502 pages
...death below, His voice no longer heard. He call'd aloud—" Say, father, say If yet my task is done ? " He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of...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 and... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1826 - 502 pages
...death below, His voice no longer heard. He call'd aloud—" Say, father, say If yet my task is done ? " He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of...gone ! " — And but the booming shots replied, And fust the flames roll'd on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair ; And look'd... | |
 | 1826 - 726 pages
...below, His voice no longer heard. He called aloud : — " say, Father, say If yet my task is done ?" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of...Speak, Father !" once again he cried, " If I may yet begone ! And " — but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1827 - 360 pages
...abandoned ; and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder. " Speak, Father ! " once again he cried, " If I may...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 and... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...father, say If yet my task is done ?" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. 4 " Speak, Father !" once again he cried, " If I may yet...but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. 5 They wrapt the ship in splendour wild, They caught the flag on high, And streamed above... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 216 pages
...«1?a,k' Fathei: !" once aSa>» he 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,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 228 pages
...death below, His voice no longer heard. He call'd aloud—" Say, father, say If yet my task i» done?" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of...son. " Speak, Father !" once again he cried, « If 1 may yet be gone !" — And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames roll'd on. Upon his... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1828 - 228 pages
...below, His voice no longer heard. He call'd aloud — " Say, father, say If yet my task is done ?" Pie knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, Father !" once again he cried, " If 1 may yet be gone !" — And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames roll'd on. Upon his... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 424 pages
...below, His voice no longer heard. He called aloud: — " say, father! say, If yet my task is done?" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of...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... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 476 pages
...below, His voice no longer heard. He called aloud : — " say, father ! say, If yet my task is done ? " He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of...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... | |
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Speak, father!' once again he cried, 'If I may yet be gone!' And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. 
