 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.  Selected Poems of Lord Byron - Page 50de George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1893 - 279 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Daniel Gardner - 1844 - 324 pages
...upon his armed hosts, and they perished, "Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen : Like...That host on the morrow, lay wither'd and strown. And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd not the breath of his... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 1844 - 336 pages
...upon his armed hosts, and they perished, " Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen : Like...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow, lay wither'cl and strown. And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 pages
...the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen : Like...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... | |
 | 1860 - 444 pages
...the expression noted above. In the poem on the " Destruction of Sennacherib," he has the following: " The Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed ; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, Their hearts but once heaved, and forever... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen : Like...blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. * 2 Kings, xix. 35. t A legion was divided into ten cohorts. For the Angel of Death spread his wings... | |
 | John Hall - 1845 - 354 pages
...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' : Like...when autumn hath blown', That host' on the morrow lay withered and strown. 3. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast', And breathed in the... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,3 That host with their banners at sunset were seen ; Like...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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1845 - 312 pages
...blue wave rolls nightly on deep Gallilee. 2. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen ; Like...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strewn. S. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the /ace... | |
 | Roger de Flor (fict.name.) - 1845 - 1130 pages
...MOUNT TAURUS. lake the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host in the valley at sunset was seen, — Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow was scattered and strown." Byron. DURING the winter months the Catalan forces were dispersed through... | |
 | Bradford Frazee - 1845 - 214 pages
...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 : Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn is blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. 3. For the Angel of Death spread his wings... | |
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