 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
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pàgines
...foe — in one red burial blent! BYRON. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. THE Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in...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,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pàgines
...leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! 1941 is questions One by one to an untenanted cross. 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... | |
 | Mandy Merck - 1998 - 252 pàgines
...power, numbers are always magnified and, stripped of individuality, dehumanised. 'The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold . . .' Byron's vivid imagery slithers easily into childhood nightmares of wolves and demons. Powerful... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pàgines
...simple, or fairly complex, or deeply and elaborately complex. Here is the opening line from Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib": The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold . . . and here not only does a visual concurrence happen, but all the other attributes of the wolf devolve upon... | |
 | Nicholas Bielby - 1999 - 228 pàgines
...what motion moved the clouds! (from Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book 1, line 330ff) The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. . . (from Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib') The metre here determines the rhythm. It is anapaestic,... | |
 | Mario Klarer - 1999 - 180 pàgines
...day. 2 Anapest, or anapestic foot: two unstressed syllahles followed hy one stressed syllahle (™') And the sheen | of their spears | was like stars | on the sea. 3 Trochee, or trochaic foot: a stressed syllahle followed hy an unstressed syllahle ( ") There they... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 2000 - 514 pàgines
...in his stead. The Destruction of Sennacherib -*•> GEORGE NOEL GORDON, LORD 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,... | |
 | William Spencer - 2000 - 156 pàgines
...these famous lines by the nineteenth-century English poet Lord Byron: "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold." The Assyrians took their name from the god Ashur, worshiped along with his female counterpart Ishtar... | |
 | Michael J. Shapiro - 2001 - 234 pàgines
...first two verses: The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the foal, And his cohorts were gleaming of purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was...Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, The host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,... | |
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