 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 páginas
...leave that part to thee ; Be thy next birth in paradise, Thy life to come eternity ! J. MONTGOMERY. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB.' THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts f were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the... | |
 | Bradford Frazee - 1845 - 214 páginas
...air. And the sparkles that flash from their eyes ! Dryden. xxa X 4. 1. The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold : And the sheen of the spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. 2. Like the... | |
 | Roger de Flor (fict.name.) - 1845 - 1130 páginas
...down like the wolf on the fold, His cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of his spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on the deep Gallilee." Byron. BEFORE the reader is transported from Constantinople to Asia Minor, and... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB'S ARMY.1 THE Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts2 were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was l1ke stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest... | |
 | Menella Bute Smedley - 1845 - 226 páginas
...bright as the stars of night.'" It is bad policy to remind my readers of Byron's exquisite line— " And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea;" but I suppose that were I to omit such a reference, I should incur the charge of plagiarism. " 'Tis... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 páginas
...that token of thee : And ne'er shall its soft tones be blended W ilh the voice of the spoiler by me ! THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. THE Assyrian came...gold And the sheen of their spears was like stars on th< sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee Like the leaves of the forest when summer... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 páginas
...dead corpses."— II. Kings 19th Chap. 35th verse. 1. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the foW, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ;...the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Gallilee. 2. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset... | |
 | 1846 - 730 páginas
...quote a few lines from each. " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold With his cohorts all gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of their...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee." " 0 ! fair as the sea-flower, close to thee growing, How light was thy heart till love's witchery came,... | |
 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 páginas
...Assyr | ian came down | like the wolf | on the fold. And his co | horts were gleam | ing in pur | pie and gold ; And the sheen | of their spears | was like stars | on the sea, When the blue | wave rolls night | ly on deep j Galilee. 2. Like the leaves of the forests when summer is green, That host | with... | |
 | Henry F. Brooks - 1848 - 114 páginas
...points; thus the glittering of drawn swords is properly termed sheen.—Cf. Byron's Hebrew Melodies: " And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea." The appearance of moonlight, broken by the shadows of a woodland landscape, may therefore not inaptly... | |
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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. 
