 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...  Poems - Page 302by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 719 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Edward MacDermott - 1854 - 236 pages
...men ; the destruction of the whole of which in one night is so poetically described by Byron,— " Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...when autumn hath blown. That host on the morrow lay withered and strewn." The city was surrounded by the Euphrates, or canals in connection with it ; and... | |
 | United States. 85th Cong., 2d sess., 1958, United States. Congress - 1958 - 222 pages
...wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming In purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears were like stars on the sea. When the blue wave rolls nightly...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 breathed In the face... | |
 | United States. 85th Cong., 2d sess., 1958, United States. Congress - 1958 - 224 pages
...wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears were like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly...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... | |
 | 1843 - 668 pages
...beautiful!^ embodied in the familiar lines, which may well describe the destruction of the French : "Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown." The retreat of the grand army, however, was but a single scene in the struggle... | |
 | 1982 - 348 pages
...George Gill 301 . THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB (Read Isaiah, chapters 36 and 37) The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...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... | |
 | 1875 - 398 pages
...Moths. Surely it was a moth with manycoloured wings that fluttered into the poet's mind when he wrote "The Destruction of Sennacherib : " — ' ' The Assyrian...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... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 pages
...and dwelt at Nineveh. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB GEORGE NOEL GORDON, LORD BYRON The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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