 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 - Page 188by Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1898 - 317 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 406 pages
...the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. 3. 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Isaac Nathan - 1829 - 268 pages
...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 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 heav'd, and... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...host with their bauners at sunset were seen : Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For...Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breath'd in the face of the foe as he pass'd ; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,... | |
 | 1839 - 512 pages
...planned the destruction of Jerusalem, and whose army was arrested, overthrown, and destroyed: — " For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd." But this opinion, though correct as far as it goes, only embraces a small part of the prophet's... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1831 - 236 pages
...host with their banners at sunset was seen ; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay 'withered and strown....chill, And their hearts but once 'heaved, and 'forever were still. And there lay the 'steed with his nostrils all wide, But thro' them there rolled not the... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...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 blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he past ; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 pages
...morrow lay withered and strowu. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the hlast, And hreathed on the face of the foe as he passed, And the eyes of...sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts hut once heaved, and for ever grew still. And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through... | |
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