 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...  Lord Byron's Works ... - Seite 225von George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 328 Seiten
...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 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... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1838 - 270 Seiten
...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 blast,...their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still? And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there rolled not the breath of his... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 Seiten
...Ljke 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 blast,...their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still ! And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there rolled not the breath of... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1838 - 242 Seiten
...blown, t f That host on the morrow lay Tft^red and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wingsjon the 'blast, And breathed in the face of the 'foe as...and chill, And their hearts but once 'heaved, and *(br«^£ «^st ill And there lay the 'steed with his nostrils alljyide, But thro' them there rolled... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1838 - 584 Seiten
...the leaves of the forest which autumn liath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strotvn: For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast And breathed in the face of ihc fne as he pass'd; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly ¡ind chill, And their hearts bat once... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 Seiten
...Like the leaves of the forest when autumn has blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. 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 butonce heaved, and... | |
 | 1839 - 510 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1839 - 232 Seiten
...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 on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd ; And the eyes of the sleepers waz'd deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heav'd, and... | |
 | C. Palfrey - 1840 - 754 Seiten
...may not indeed be swept away in a moment, as the hosts of the Assyrian king before Jerusalem, " When the angel of death spread his wings on the blast,...breathed in the face of the foe as he passed, And the might nf the Gentile, unsmote bv the sword, Was melted, like snow, in the glance of the Lord." Yet... | |
 | Christian - 1840 - 318 Seiten
...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 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 then- hearts but once heaved, and... | |
| |
