 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...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...forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host, on the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...stings for evermore The soul that must endure it THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen ; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the... | |
 | George W. Burnap - Women - 1848 - 358 pages
...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...forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen ; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pages
...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...forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset was seen; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...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...forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen : Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the... | |
 | 1856 - 1270 pages
...and gold ; And the sheen of his spears were like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls mighty on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when...when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breaUrd in the face... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...air, And the clouds perished ; Darkness had no need THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...forest when summer is green, That host with their baaners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...calm but heaven ! IX DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIR'S HOST AT JERUSALEM. THE Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in...forest, when summer is green, That host, with their banners, at sunset were seen : Like the leaves of the forest, when autumn hath blown, That host, on... | |
 | Religious poetry - 1850 - 300 pages
...sway, Or kingly the death which awaits us to-day ! THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars in the sea When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer... | |
 | George Henry Taylor (master of the Model sch, Battersea.) - 1851 - 292 pages
...destruction of the Assyrians is most powerfully described in the following verses : — " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen : Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the... | |
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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. 
