 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
 | Charles Baker - 1850 - 446 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 on the blast, And breathe'd on the face of the foe as he pass'd, And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their... | |
 | 1850 - 300 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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | 1851 - 614 Seiten
...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 !...face of the foe as he passed ; And the eyes of the sleeping waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and forever grew still ! "And there... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1851 - 328 Seiten
...host v/ith 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...face of the foe as he passed ; And the eyes of the sleeper waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still." "What instrument... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 Seiten
...it is done, to see." SHAKSPEARE'S Macbeth. Here we have fifty-two words, and but two dissyllables. " ghty ceased, but all The multitude beat but once, and forever lay still. And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, And through... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 Seiten
...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 blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as lie passed ; And the eyes of the sleeper waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved,... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1851 - 236 Seiten
...the leaves of the forest when autumn is b!6wn That hijst on the m6rrow lay wither'd and str6wn. 3. For the A'ngel of Death spread his wings on the blast,...breathed in the face of the foe as he passed ; And the £yes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still.... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1851 - 396 Seiten
...Like the leaves of the forest, when autumn is flown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strewn. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast,—...breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the breath of the sleepers grew deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever were still.... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1851 - 340 Seiten
...this day sometimes envelope and destroy whole caravans. Byron has adopted this view in his lines " For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,...And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed." A tradition preserved by Herodotus, who received it from his favourite 1 Isaiah xxxvii. 36. authorities,... | |
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