 | 1847 - 540 pages
...one bound — escapes control. BYRON'S Corsair. 17. How peaceful and how powe.ful is the grave '. 18. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,...when Autumn hath blown, That host, on the morrow, lay wither'd and strovvn ! BYRON. 19. And dull the film along his dim eye grew. BYRON'S Lara. 20. Yes,... | |
 | 1847 - 526 pages
...one bound — escapes control. BYRON'S Corsair. 17. How peaceful and how powerful is the grave ! 18. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,...when Autumn hath blown, That host, on the morrow, lay wither'd and strown ! BYRON. 19. And dull the film along his dim eye grew. BYRON'S Lara. 20. Yes, this... | |
 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 pages
...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... | |
 | John F. A. Sawyer - 1996 - 336 pages
...Byron's poem The Destruction of Semnachenb.39 It begins with the memorable lines: 'The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, /And his cohorts were gleaming Schell, 'Lilith', p. 455. Schell, 'Lilith', p. 455. 35 MacDonald, Lilith, p. 378. 36 MacDonald, Lililh,... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1996 - 476 pages
...Museum. Assyrian . . . purple: compare Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib iz: The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; i, 4-5 The ladies . . . steam from drying rubber overshoes . . . hats: compare two consecutive sentences... | |
 | John Malcolm Russell, Judith Sheila McKenzie, Judith McKenzie, Stephanie Dalley, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art Staff - 1997 - 244 pages
...subjects. The most memorable of these, Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib" ("The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold / And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold . . ."), was penned in 1815, twenty-five hundred years after Sennacherib's siege of Jerusalem, the... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pages
...old Triton blow his wreathed horn. (from Hebrew Melodies) George Gordon, Lord Byron The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. n Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen:... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! 1941 'The Destruction of Sennacherib' The Assyrian came s 1942 'The Destruction of Sennacherib' For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed... | |
 | Harry S. Truman - 1998 - 614 pages
...but be in reserve *The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleamimg in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. — Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib, but I am hoping for a shot most every day. My Battery was... | |
 | Mandy Merck - 1998 - 252 pages
...power, numbers 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... | |
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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. 
