 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 Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 Seiten
...host with their banners at sunset were seen ; Like the leavesof the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For...Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed on the face of the foe as he passed ; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1851 - 336 Seiten
...this day sometimes envelope and destroy whole caravans. Byron has adopted this view in his lines " Tor 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 i Isaiah xxxvii. 36. authorities,... | |
 | 1982 - 348 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 ....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 them there rolled... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 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... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 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...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 Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1995 - 412 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...And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; 10 And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill. And their hearts but once heaved - and for... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 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; in And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill. And their hearts but once heaved, and... | |
 | John Rodman Williams - 1996 - 1466 Seiten
...depicts this judgment. After speaking of how the Assyrian host "lay withered and strown," Byron writes: have noted, there were three successive creative 192 who do God's will in heaven. Moreover it is implied that they do it perfectly, since the prayer... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 Seiten
...on the sea. When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. 1942 'The Destruction of Sennacherib' G9эt _ z | NN8 5+Ao @%m Ţ ѭ _ 4~7 r X i 1} ͒ v c 1943 To Eliza' Still I can't contradict, what so oft has been said, "Though women are angels, yet wedlock's... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 Seiten
...the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. in 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... | |
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