 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, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the angel of Death spread his wings on the...  Stepping Stones to Literature - Seite 188von Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1898 - 317 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1838 - 584 Seiten
...the leaves of the forest which autumn liath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strotvn: For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast And breathed in the face of ihc fne as he pass'd; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly ¡ind chill, And their hearts bat once... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 Seiten
...host with their banners at sunset were seen : Like the leaves of the forest when autumn has blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For...the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd ; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their hearts butonce heaved, and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1839 - 232 Seiten
...were seen : Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings...the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd ; And the eyes of the sleepers waz'd deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heav'd, and... | |
 | 1839 - 510 Seiten
...planned the destruction of Jerusalem, and whose army was arrested, overthrown, and destroyed : — " For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd." But this opinion, though correct as far as it goes, only embraces a small part of the prophet's... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1839 - 306 Seiten
...was seen ; Like the leaves of the forest 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 on the face of the foe as he past ; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their... | |
 | C. Palfrey - 1840 - 754 Seiten
...may not indeed be swept away in a moment, as the hosts of the Assyrian king before Jerusalem, " When the angel of death spread his wings on the blast,...breathed in the face of the foe as he passed, And the might nf the Gentile, unsmote bv the sword, Was melted, like snow, in the glance of the Lord." Yet... | |
 | Christian - 1840 - 318 Seiten
...were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings...the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd ; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And then- hearts but once heaved, and... | |
 | Christian - 1840 - 312 Seiten
...the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. i For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd ; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1841 - 372 Seiten
...strown. • JElian calls him Thilgamus. t 2 Kings. t Adrammelech and Sharezer. $ 2 Kings, zix., v. 37. " For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast,...deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still. "And there lay the steed, with his nostril all wide, But through it there rolled... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - 1841 - 296 Seiten
...were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. "For the angel of death spread his wings...the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and... | |
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