 The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.  The New Whig Guide - Seite 117von Henry John Temple Palmerston (Viscount), John Wilson Croker, Robert Peel - 1819 - 240 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 Seiten
...strange strife, And bring my soule to better rest. PH(EKIX NEST, 1593. THE DESTRUCTION OF SEMNACHERIB. i, THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaning in purple and gold : And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1826 - 566 Seiten
...he hlended With the voice of the spoiler hy me ! THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in pnrple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the hlne wave rolls... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1831 - 236 Seiten
...Rolled together, inwrapped ; involved. No. 41. — The Destruction of Sennacherib. THE 'Assyrian came down like the wolf On the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold ; And the 'sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue waves... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 242 Seiten
...best in the shade, but which wither when exposed to the influence of the sun." " The Assyrian came down, like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave... | |
 | Charles Baker - 1850 - 446 Seiten
...accomplished in every point. DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. "I WILL SEND A BLAST UPON HIM." The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue waves... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 322 Seiten
...morning, be- hold, they were all dead corpses." — 2 Kings, 19th Chap. 35th verse. 1. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming iu purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1861 - 418 Seiten
...Assyrian recalls the destruction of Sennacherib's army, of whom Lord Byron wrote — The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars in the sea, When the blue wave shines... | |
 | Simon Kerl - 1861 - 372 Seiten
...winds come when forests are rended; Of all this wondrous world we see."—Moore. " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold."—Byron. " Lives of great men all remind us Come as the waves come when navies... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1862 - 372 Seiten
...hunt the wolf in the woods to-day. ST Coleridge CLXVI THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold. And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1863 - 420 Seiten
...thy torch at Nature's funeral pile. Same. £.-.0 THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purplo and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls... | |
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