 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 306 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,..., That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. 8. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 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...their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue ware rolls nightly on deep Galilee. II. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host... | |
 | English essays - 1822 - 494 pages
...DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. 2 KINGS, XIX. 35. The Asyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of...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 - 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...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 touches with great... | |
 | 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,}...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 elegance the highest... | |
 | Arminianism - 1819 - 996 pages
...June, 1818. 2 KINGS xix. 35. The Asyrian came down like the wolf on the And his cohorts were gleami: gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars...Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer ia Whose bright accomplishments we find, Kept him from faults of vulgar kind, And all their sad distresses.... | |
 | 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...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 touches with great... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 614 pages
...THE DESTRUCTION OF SETCACHERIB. 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. 2. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Bookbinding - 1823 - 386 pages
...THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. 1. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of...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 face of the foe as he... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1823 - 310 pages
...THE DESTRUCTION OF SEMNACHERIB. 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. II. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were... | |
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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. 
