 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1851 - 396 pages
...thrown off their guard ? 23 Was their loss great ? SECTION IV. DESTRUCTION OF THE ATHENIAN EXPEDITION. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...when autumn hath blown. That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. — Byron. 1. WHILE Ni"cias was reflecting with grief upon c BC his present unhappy... | |
 | Frederick Walpole (hon.) - 1851 - 438 pages
...purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue waves roll nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest...were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn has blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown." On the next stone was depicted a siege... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1851 - 682 pages
...purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea. When the blue waves roll nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest...were seen ; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn is blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.' " On the next stone was depicted a siege... | |
 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host, with their hanners, at sunset were seen: Like Ihe leaves of the forest, when Autumn hath blown, That...Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breath'd on the face of the foe as he passed : And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,... | |
 | William Bernard Maccabe - Hungary - 1851 - 160 pages
...Jews, when it destroyed the army of Sennacherib ; " Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is seen, That host with their banners at sunset were seen ;...hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strewn." The Irish "rebellion " was manifestly from its very outset, to be nothing more than a conflict... | |
 | Frederick Walpole - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1851 - 406 pages
...sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea. When the blue waves roll nightly on deep Qalilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...were seen ; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn has blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown." On the next stone was depicted a siege... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...but the living who are dumb. 34. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. — 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 strewn. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, A.nd breathed in the face... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...is but the living who are dumb. 34. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB.— 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 strewn. And there lay the steed with his nostrils all wide, But through them there rolled... | |
 | Cottage verse, Joseph Jones - 1852 - 296 pages
...fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like the stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. And the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed on the face... | |
 | Eliza Smith (clergyman's daughter.) - 1852 - 352 pages
...gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the bine wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. ' Like the leaves...hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strewn. ' For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breath'd on the face of the foe... | |
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