 THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.  Poetry of Byron: Chosen and Arranged - Page 50de George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1892 - 276 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1851 - 328 pages
...Assyrians a hundred four score and five thousand : and in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses." "Like the leaves of the forest, when summer is green, That host v/ith their banners at sunset were seen : Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...— Ireland fbrtver 1 LESSON CXLVII. The Destruction of Sennacherib. — BYRON. 1. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. 2. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green That host with their banners at sunset were seen... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1995 - 413 pages
...has "rollf "] on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of his spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. These are the opening lines from Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib," Mark Twain's favorite stanza... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1995 - 412 pages
...innocent! 1814 1815 * Numbers in square brackets refer to pages on which notes may be found. [370] THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold. And his coborts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea.... | |
 | Alfred Alvarez - 1996 - 324 pages
...can never fake, he was not referring to the regular, mechanical thumpity-thump - 'The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,/ And his cohorts were gleaming in silver and gold' he meant the inner rhythm, the natural breath. When the poet is genuinely disturbed... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...This could not last - she lies by him she loved; Her tale untold - her truth too dearly proved. The Destruction of Sennacherib The Assyrian came down...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. II 5 Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were... | |
 | John F. A. Sawyer - 1996 - 336 pages
...Byron's poem The Destruction of Semnachenb.39 It begins with the memorable lines: 'The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, /And his cohorts were gleaming Schell, 'Lilith', p. 455. Schell, 'Lilith', p. 455. 35 MacDonald, Lilith, p. 378. 36 MacDonald, Lililh,... | |
 | John Malcolm Russell, Judith Sheila McKenzie, Judith McKenzie, Stephanie Dalley, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art Staff - 1997 - 244 pages
...and powerfully expressive renditions of Ninevite subjects. The most memorable of these, Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib" ("The Assyrian came down.../ And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold . . ."), was penned in 1815, twenty-five hundred years after Sennacherib's siege of Jerusalem, the... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1996 - 476 pages
...Museum. Assyrian . . . purple: compare Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib iz: The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; i, 4-5 The ladies . . . steam from drying rubber overshoes . . . hats: compare two consecutive sentences... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! 1941 'The estions One by one to an untenanted cross. 1942 'The Destruction of Sennacherib' For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed... | |
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