 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. II. Like the leaves of tin- forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen ;...blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. in. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 406 pages
...the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. 2. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen :...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... | |
 | Religious poetry - 1828 - 198 pages
...the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. 8 Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen ;...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay witherrd and strovvn. 5 For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breath'd on the face... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Isaac Nathan - Jews - 1829 - 268 pages
...When the blue waves roll nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen;...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
...on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest, when Summer is green, That host with their bauners at sunset were seen : Like the leaves of the forest...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,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1839 - 512 pages
...they were all dead corpses," Isa. xxxvii, 36. " Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host, with their banners, at sun-set were seen...That host on the morrow lay withered and strown." Thus Judah is preserved, and the Assyrian destroyed. Sennacherib only " shook his hand against the... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1831 - 236 pages
...'Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest 'when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset was seen ; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath...And breathed in the face of the 'foe as he passed ; And the eyes of the sleepers 'waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once 'heaved, and 'forever... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen :...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... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 pages
...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen,...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen :...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... | |
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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. 
