 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.  Poems - Sida 302efter George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 sidor
...rolls nightly on deep Galilee. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breath 'd on the face of the foe as he pass'd ; And the eyes of...heaved, and for ever grew still And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride, And the foam... | |
 | 1851 - 614 sidor
...were 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...the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed ; And the eyes of the sleeping waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1851 - 328 sidor
...were 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...the blast And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed ; And the eyes of the sleeper waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 sidor
...were 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...the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed ; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 sidor
...it is done, to see." SHAKSPEARE'S Macbeth. Here we have fifty-two words, and but two dissyllables. " For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed ; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts beat but once, and forever... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1851 - 340 sidor
...this day sometimes envelope and destroy whole caravans. Byron has adopted this view in his lines " For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed." A tradition preserved by Herodotus, who received it from his favourite 1 Isaiah xxxvii. 36.... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1851 - 396 sidor
...Like the leaves of the forest, when autumn is flown, 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 of the foe as he passed; And the breath of the sleepers grew deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1851 - 236 sidor
...the leaves of the forest when autumn is b!6wn That hijst on the m6rrow lay wither'd and str6wn. 3. For the A'ngel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed ; And the £yes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1851 - 336 sidor
...this day sometimes envelope and destroy whole caravans. Byron has adopted this view in his lines " Tor the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed." A tradition preserved by Herodotus, who received it from his favourite i Isaiah xxxvii. 36.... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 sidor
...The tie which bound the first endures the last ! THE DESTEUCTION OF SENNACHEEIB. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...heaved, and for ever grew still ! And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride : And the... | |
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