 | Bradford Frazee - 1845 - 214 pàgines
...down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold : And the 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, That host with their banners at sunset were... | |
 | Roger de Flor (fict.name.) - 1845 - 1130 pàgines
...down like the wolf on the fold, His cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of his spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on the deep Gallilee." Byron. BEFORE the reader is transported from Constantinople to Asia Minor, and... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pàgines
...DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB'S ARMY.1 THE Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts2 were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was l1ke stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest... | |
 | Menella Bute Smedley - 1845 - 226 pàgines
...bright as the stars of night.'" It is bad policy to remind my readers of Byron's exquisite line— " And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea;" but I suppose that were I to omit such a reference, I should incur the charge of plagiarism. " 'Tis... | |
 | Mogens Trolle Larsen - 1996 - 420 pàgines
...'The Destruction of Sennacherib': The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of...hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strewn. Esarhaddon, the next king of Assyria, does not figure prominently in the Bible. In fact, it... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pàgines
...proved. The Destruction of Sennacherib 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 5 Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pàgines
...Sennacherib," altogether anapestic: The Assyrian came down like a 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. There is a fifth foot pattern — not properly a meter — which is used with fair frequency, the spondee.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pàgines
...'The Destruction of Sennacherib' The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold. And his cohorts I ꏨ " 998 Wordsworth"' 1942 'The Destruction of Sennacherib' For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed... | |
 | Harry S. Truman - 1998 - 614 pàgines
...but be in reserve *The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleamimg in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. — Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib, but I am hoping for a shot most every day. My Battery was... | |
 | Nicholas Bielby - 1999 - 228 pàgines
...Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book 1, line 330ff) 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. . . (from Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib') The metre here determines the rhythm. It is anapaestic,... | |
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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. 
