 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. 2. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strewn. 3. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pages
...their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee ! POETRY. 203 Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,...were seen : Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn huth blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strewn. For the Angel of Death spread his wings... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1852 - 314 pages
...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,...sunset were seen : Like the leaves of the forest when aulumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the angel of death spread his... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 pages
...sons killed him. Have you never read those beautiful lines about it — "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in...hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strewn. For the angel of death spread his wings OB the blast, And breathed on the face of the foe as... | |
 | 1853 - 244 pages
...gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars of the sea When the blue wave rolls mightily in deep Galilee. *' Like the leaves of the forest, when...when autumn hath blown, That host, on the morrow, lay withered and strewn. " For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And brcath'd in the face... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1853 - 314 pages
...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,...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast And breathed in the face... | |
 | 1854 - 268 pages
...BYRON. THE Assyrian came clown like a wolf on the fold, And liis cohorts were gleaming in purple arid gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars...hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strewn. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as... | |
 | 1854 - 818 pages
...score and five thousand, and when they arose early in the morning, behold they were dead corpses." *' Like the leaves of the forest, when Summer is green,...Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breath'd in the face of the foe as he pass'd ; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,... | |
 | 1854 - 400 pages
...score and five thousand, and when they arose early in the morning, behold they were dead corpses." " Like the leaves of the forest, when summer is green,...wither'd and strown. " For the angel of death spread hie wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd ; And the eyes of the sleepers... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1854 - 128 pages
...thence securely sees The bustle and the raree show, That occupy mankind below, Secure and at his ease. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown ; For the Angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face... | |
| |
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. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is... 
