 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...  The works of ... lord Byron - Page 195by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815Full view - About this book
 | 1818 - 384 pages
...blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest whea Summer is green, That hust with their banners at sunset were seen : Like the...blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, grew still. And there lay the steed with his... | |
 | Henry John Temple Palmerston (Viscount), John Wilson Croker, Robert Peel - 1819 - 258 pages
...blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. II. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, The host with their banners at sunset were seen ; Like the leaves of the forest when Antumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. III. For the Angel of Death spread... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1819 - 494 pages
...on deep GaE. Ir.v. Like the leaves of the forest wh*n snmmer Is green, The host with their hanners at sunset were seen . Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hajh blown, That boa on the morrow lav withered awl strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wingi... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pages
...resemblance to the old Scotch song of " the Flowers of the Forest." The stanza alluded to is this ; " Like the leaves of the forest, when summer is green,}...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown." It would be unjust to pass unnoticed part of one poem, which touches with great... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 614 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 wither'd and strown. • 3. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the... | |
 | John Watkins - Poets, English - 1822 - 476 pages
...resemblance to the old Scotch song of " the Flowers of the Forest." The stanza alluded to is this ; " Like the leaves of the forest, when summer is green...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown." It would be unjust to pass unnoticed part of one 220 HEBREW MELODIES. poem, which... | |
 | English essays - 1822 - 494 pages
...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 green,...when autumn hath blown, That host, on the morrow, lie wither'd and strewn. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breath' d in the... | |
 | John Watkins - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...the Forest." The stanza alluded to is this ; " Like the leaves of the forest, when summer is green,1) That host, with their banners, at sun-set were seen...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown." It would be unjust to pass unnoticed part of one 220 HEBREW MELODIES. poem, which... | |
 | Arminianism - 1819 - 996 pages
...the most discerning. Death met him in a croud one day, green, The host with their banners at suuset were seen : Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn...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 of the foe as he passed;... | |
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