 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 Poetical Works of Lord Byron: With Lifeby George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1857 - 576 pagesSnippet view - About this book
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...DESTRUCTION OF SENACHERIB. Byron. The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of...seen : Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the angel of death spread his wings on... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pages
...THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. I. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. n. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...DESTRUCTION OF SENACHERIB. Byron. The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of...seen : Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the angel of death spread his wings on... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - Constitutional law - 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,...: Like the leaves of the forest, when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow, lay wither'cl and strown. And there lay the steed with his nostril... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...proved. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. TRE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of...seen : Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB.' THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts f were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of...seen : Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. * 2 Kings, xix. 35. t A legion was divided... | |
 | John Hall - Elocution - 1845 - 354 pages
...SENNACHERIB. Anapestic. Four feet. 1. THE Assyrian came down* like the wolf on the fold', And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold' ; And the sheen...When the 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... | |
 | Bradford Frazee - English language - 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... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 636 pages
...the other. " J*. ABD-EL-KADER. " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold : And the sheen of...seen : Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown." PEACE, humanity, and civilization, are deeply... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...proved. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. TRE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of...seen : Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on... | |
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