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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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Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Practical Medicine, Volume 50

1847 - 600 pages
...noon-day and the arrow that flieth by night!" There is 33 much philosophy as truth in the description : " 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...
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The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Practical Medicine, Volume 50

1847 - 592 pages
...noon-day and the arrow that flieth by night !" There is as much philosophy as truth in the description : " 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...
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The Argonaut, Volume 5

1875 - 398 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. " The effect is quite prismatic. These fierce warriors, instead of sweeping through the land like the...
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Chapters into Verse: Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible: Volume 1 ...

Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 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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The Collected Poems of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. П. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer ¡s = Ш. For the Angel of Death spread lúa wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 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...And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd; in And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill. And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever...
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Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1995 - 412 pages
...the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, r' 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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James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age

James G. Hershberg - 1995 - 980 pages
...passage from Lord Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib": For the Angel of Death spread his winds on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd. It quickly became known that among those responsible for the introduction of gas warfare by Germany...
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The Conquest of Assyria: Excavations in an Antique Land, 1840-1860

Mogens Trolle Larsen - 1996 - 420 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...hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strewn. Esarhaddon, the next king of Assyria, does not figure prominently in the Bible. In fact, it...
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Selected Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. II 5 Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,...blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. tn For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, 10 And breathed in the face of the foe as...
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