What is "casabianca"

"Casabianca" is a poem by the English poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans, first published in the New Monthly Magazine for August 1826.

The poem starts:

The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead.

It is written in ballad meter, rhyming abab.

Casabianca may refer to:

• Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca (1762–1798), French Navy officer
• A number of vessels of the French Navy are named after Luc Casabianca:
  • French submarine Casabianca (Q183)
  • Casabianca, a T 47-class destroyer
  • French submarine Casabianca (S603)
• "Casabianca" (poem), a poem by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
• Raphaël, Comte de Casabianca (1738–1825), French general
• Casabianca, Haute-Corse, a commune in the Haute-Corse department, Corsica, France
• Camille de Casabianca (born 1960), French filmmaker and writer