 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...  The works of lord Byron - Page 32by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. * 2 Kings, xix. 35. t A legion was divided into ten cohorts. For the 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,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...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,...deadly and chill. And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still. And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strewn. 3. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast,...and chill, And their hearts but once heaved — and fsr ever grew still, 4. And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there rolled... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. For the Angel uf Death spread his wings on lh< blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd...deadly and chill And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever yrev still ! And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, Kutthrough il there roll'd... | |
 | Medicine - 1847 - 600 pages
...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, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed." | This is a very characteristic feature of epidemics in general. Dr. Johnson very soundly... | |
 | Medicine - 1847 - 590 pages
...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, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed." I This is a very characteristic feature of epidemics in general. Dr. Johnson very soundly... | |
 | Salem Town - American literature - 1847 - 420 pages
...the leaves of the forests when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. 3. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, 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... | |
 | Stephen W. q (Stephen Watkins) Clark - English language - 1847 - 242 pages
...that looks ON THY ONCE HOLY DOME." " IN AN UNEXPECTED HOUR they were startled BY THE THUNDER OP THB " For the angel of death spread his wings ON THE BLAsT, And breathed IN THE PACE OP THE FOE as he passed." CANNON." Adverbial Sentences. " The man that dares traduce, BECAUsE... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...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 on the face of the foe, as he pass'd; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their... | |
 | 1847 - 548 pages
...Death spread his wings on the A nd hreathM in the nice of the foe as he pass'd ; Am! the e yc s oft he sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still ! Ar.d there l:iv t!ie steed with his nostril all wide. But through' it there roll'd... | |
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