 The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.  A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-war - Page 243by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming - 1882 - 389 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Social case work - 1927 - 376 pages
...be dim compared with the shining ten minutes when one's father first read aloud : The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold. And his cohorts were gleaming in yellow and gold. And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls... | |
 | Alfred Alvarez - Fiction - 1996 - 324 pages
...can never fake, he was not referring to the regular, mechanical thumpity-thump - 'The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,/ And his cohorts were gleaming in silver and gold' he meant the inner rhythm, the natural breath. When the poet is genuinely disturbed... | |
 | John F. A. Sawyer - Religion - 1996 - 336 pages
...Byron's poem The Destruction of Semnachenb.39 It begins with the memorable lines: 'The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, /And his cohorts were gleaming Schell, 'Lilith', p. 455. Schell, 'Lilith', p. 455. 35 MacDonald, Lilith, p. 378. 36 MacDonald, Lililh,... | |
 | M. G. Easton - Religion - 2006 - 757 pages
...of in the Assyrian annals. The scene is thus depicted by the English poet :-— " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with pnrple end gold Like the leave» of the forest when summer is That host with their banners at... | |
 | 142 pages
...lines about the Assyrian king Sennacherib encapsulate this point of view nicely: "The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold."2 I should say at once, the evidence suggests that this characterization is based on fact. Ancient... | |
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