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" 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 hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. "
Selections from the writings of lord Byron, by a clergyman [W. Elwin]. - Page 135
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854
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The United States Speaker: A Copious Selection of Exercises in Elocution ...

John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 pages
...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...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...
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A Treatise on International Law: And a Short Explanation of the Jurisdiction ...

Daniel Gardner - 1844 - 336 pages
...of the God of Sabaoth by the Assyrian. The angel breathed upon his armed hosts, and they perished, " Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...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...
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The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, Volume 17

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...
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The Modern Poetical Speaker; Or, a Collection of Pieces Adapted for ...

Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...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...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...
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The School Reader: Fourth Book. Containing Instructions in the Elementary ...

Charles Walton Sanders - 1845 - 312 pages
...sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Gallilee. 2. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...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...
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The Reader's Guide: Containing a Notice of the Elementary Sounds in the ...

John Hall - 1845 - 354 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 strown. 3. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast', And breathed in the...
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An Improved Grammar of the English Language, on the Inductive System: With ...

Bradford Frazee - 1845 - 214 pages
...sheen of the 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,...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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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...When the 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 ;...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...
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A System of English Grammar

Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...themselves,— Channing. 6. While this multitude of flies 7s filling all the air with melody. Wordsworth. 7. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...That host with their banners at sunset were seen. — Byron. 207. A noun is sometimes put in the nominative, even when it is not the subject of the sentence,...
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The fortunes of Roger de Flor: or, The Almugavars

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...
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