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. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is... A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry - Página 424de Charles Mackay - 1896 - 633 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Cottage verse, Joseph Jones - 1852 - 296 páginas
...fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like the stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly...blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. And the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed on the face of the foe as he passed... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 páginas
...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...blown, That host, on the morrow, lay withered and strewn. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 páginas
...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...blown, That host, on the morrow, lay withered and strewn. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, A.nd breathed in the face of the foe... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 páginas
...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...when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face... | |
| Eliza Smith (clergyman's daughter.) - 1852 - 352 páginas
...gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the bine wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. ' Like the leaves...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strewn. ' For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breath'd on the face... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 páginas
...sheen of their 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...hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strewn. 3. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe... | |
| Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 páginas
...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...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strewn. For the angel of death spread his wings OB the blast, And breathed on the face... | |
| Henry Harbaugh - 1853 - 314 páginas
...a hundred four score and five thousand : and in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses." " Like the leaves of the forest, when summer is green,...withered and strown. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed ; And the eyes of the sleeper... | |
| 1853 - 244 páginas
...gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars of the sea When the blue wave rolls mightily in deep Galilee. *' Like the leaves of the forest, when...blown, That host, on the morrow, lay withered and strewn. " For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And brcath'd in the face of the foe... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 páginas
...cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the 868, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee....sunset were seen ; Like the leaves of the forest when Antumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his... | |
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