 | John Phillips - 2001 - 712 σελίδες
...dead. We are reminded of the poem by Lord Byron, "The Destruction of Sennacherib." The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wines on the blast, And breathed in the face... | |
 | Denis Donoghue - 2002 - 356 σελίδες
...Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib," a featured poem in The Poet's Company: The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nighdy on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners... | |
 | John Phillips - 2001 - 742 σελίδες
...its towering ramparts. Lord Byron has caught the beat and march of the event: And the Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...was like stars on the sea When the blue wave rolls nighdy on deep Galilee. Hezekiah first sought appeasement by paying enormous tribute to buy the invader... | |
 | Lester L. Grabbe - 2003 - 370 σελίδες
...McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998). THIS Is WHAT HAPPENS. . . Philip R. Davies The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold Matthew Arnold, Sohrab and Rustam This is what happens when little kings get too ambitious. The big... | |
 | A. H. Weatherley - 2003 - 276 σελίδες
...A fragment of poetry from my schooldays kept popping up in my mind? "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold." an hour like a bat out of Hell. I knew by then that I was not going to be able to run down all of the... | |
 | Joseph R. Goldyne, Eric Denker, Thomas H. Garver - 2004 - 328 σελίδες
...lifii'wliich for' him I'resign. IIKUHEW MELODIES. THE Dr.STRUCTlON OF SEMNACHERIB. I. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. II. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were... | |
 | Duncan B. Forrester, James Ian H. McDonald, Gian Tellini - 2004 - 254 σελίδες
...conquest: on its conquest and subjugation of Northern Israel (Jonah's country), when The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold. And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. (Byron) The result: the destruction of the country, the ruin of a culture and religion, the dismembering... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 2004 - 318 σελίδες
...of the God of Sabaoth by the Assyrian. The angel breathed upon his armed hosts, and they perished, "Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...sunset were seen : Like the leaves of the forest, when autirmn hath blown, That host on the morrow, lay wither'd and strown. And there lay the steed with... | |
 | Andrew Michael Arnold - 2004 - 348 σελίδες
...purple and gold." Obviously not the first time the family had been regaled with the quotation. "... And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the...when the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee." Mr Ginger winked at me. "Lord Byron," he remarked. "I expect you have heard of him." I did not admit... | |
 | 342 σελίδες
...3:16-17). The Destruction of Sennacherib By George Gordon (Lord) Byron (1788-1824) The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strewn. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face... | |
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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. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is... 
