 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 sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!  Songs of Three Centuries - Seite 125herausgegeben von - 1875 - 352 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1856 - 1270 Seiten
...mighty on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banner at sunset were seen ; Like the leaves of the forest...Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breaUrd in the face of the foe as he pass'd ; And the eyes of the sleeper waxed deadly and chill, And... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 Seiten
...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen:...hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strewn. For the angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed oil the face of the foe... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 Seiten
...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest, when summer is green, That host, with their banners, at sunset were seen...passed : And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still ! And there lay the steed, with... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 Seiten
...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen :...passed ; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still ! And there lay the steed with... | |
 | 1851 - 614 Seiten
...the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. " Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen ;...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
...they were all dead corpses." "Like the leaves of the forest, when summer is green, That host v/ith their banners at sunset were seen : Like the leaves...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... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 Seiten
...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen ;...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,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 Seiten
...it is done, to see." SHAKSPEARE'S Macbeth. Here we have fifty-two words, and but two dissyllables. " For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,...passed ; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts beat but once, and forever lay still. And there lay the steed with his... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 396 Seiten
...SECTION IV. DESTRUCTION OF THE ATHENIAN EXPEDITION. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen :...blown. That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. — Byron. 1. WHILE Ni"cias was reflecting with grief upon c BC his present unhappy situation, and... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1851 - 336 Seiten
...morning dawned behold they were all dead men."i "Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen....That host on the morrow lay withered and strown." Thns in one night perished one hundred and eighty-five thousand fighting men, a number which, considered... | |
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