...are always magnified and, stripped of individuality, dehumanised. 'The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold . . .' Byron's vivid imagery slithers easily into childhood nightmares of wolves and demons. Powerful...

...moved the clouds! (from Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book 1, line 330ff) 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. ....

...besieged Jerusalem, prompting these famous lines by the nineteenth-century English poet Lord Byron: "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold." The Assyrians took their name from the god Ashur, worshiped along with his female counterpart Ishtar...

...The Destruction of Sennacherib -*•> GEORGE NOEL GORDON, LORD BYRON 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....

...consideration the famous anthology piece The Destruction of Sennacherib (1815): 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....

...Destruction of Sennacherib," a featured poem in The Poet's Company: 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 nighdy on deep Galilee. Like...

...has told us what it was like when the Assyrian army took the field: The Assyrians 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 nighdy on deep Galilee. That...

...Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998). THIS Is WHAT HAPPENS. . . Philip R. Davies The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold Matthew Arnold, Sohrab and Rustam This is what happens when little kings get too ambitious. The big...

...mixed gang of spavined pit ponies. A fragment of poetry from my schooldays kept popping up in my mind? "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold." an hour like a bat out of Hell. I knew by then that I was not going to be able to run down all of the...

...invasion of the Israelites' ruthless enemy and their defeat by the Lord: 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 in the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.99...