 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.  The Children's Treasury of English Song - Pàgina 77per Francis Turner Palgrave - 1875 - 302 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pàgines
...Her tale untold — her truth too dearly proved. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. TRE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen : Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pàgines
...that token of thee : And ne'er shall its soft tones be blended W ilh the voice of the spoiler by me ! THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. THE Assyrian came...gold And the sheen of their spears was like stars on th< sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee Like the leaves of the forest when summer... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pàgines
...dead corpses."— II. Kings 19th Chap. 35th verse. 1. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the foW, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ;...the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Gallilee. 2. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset... | |
 | 1846 - 730 pàgines
...quote a few lines from each. " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold With his cohorts all gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of their...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee." " 0 ! fair as the sea-flower, close to thee growing, How light was thy heart till love's witchery came,... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pàgines
...and find eternal rest ! LESSON LII. Tfic Destruction of Scnnaclicrib. — BYRON. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown,... | |
 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 pàgines
...Assyr | ian came down | like the wolf | on the fold. And his co | horts were gleam | ing in pur | pie and gold ; And the sheen | of their spears | was like stars | on the sea, When the blue | wave rolls night | ly on deep j Galilee. 2. Like the leaves of the forests when summer is green, That host | with... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pàgines
...lore, Nor music's voice can lure it ; But there it stings for evermore The soul that must endure it THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. THE Assyrian came...Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen ; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,... | |
 | George W. Burnap - 1848 - 358 pàgines
...poetic genius it becomes one of the most magnificent pictures in all literature. " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen ; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown,... | |
 | Henry F. Brooks - 1848 - 114 pàgines
...points; thus the glittering of drawn swords is properly termed sheen.—Cf. Byron's Hebrew Melodies: " And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea." The appearance of moonlight, broken by the shadows of a woodland landscape, may therefore not inaptly... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pàgines
...many a day with measures full of sadness! DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. LOBD BYRON. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset was seen; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown,... | |
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