 | Charles Baker - 1850 - 446 páginas
...accomplished in every point. DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. "I WILL SEND A BLAST UPON HIM." The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue waves... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 páginas
...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...the sea, 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... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 páginas
...worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! 1941 'The Destruction of Sennacherib' The Assyrian came s Galilee. 1942 'The Destruction of Sennacherib' For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,... | |
 | Harry S. Truman - 1998 - 614 páginas
...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...the sea, 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... | |
 | Mandy Merck - 1998 - 252 páginas
...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... | |
 | Nicholas Bielby - 1999 - 228 páginas
...what motion moved the clouds! (from Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book 1, line 330ff) The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold And his cohorts were...on the sea When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. . . (from Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib') The metre here determines the rhythm. It... | |
 | Mario Klarer - 1999 - 180 páginas
...day. 2 Anapest, or anapestic foot: two unstressed syllahles followed hy one stressed syllahle (™') And the sheen | of their spears | was like stars | on the sea. 3 Trochee, or trochaic foot: a stressed syllahle followed hy an unstressed syllahle ( ") There they... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 2000 - 514 páginas
...in his stead. The Destruction of Sennacherib -*•> GEORGE NOEL GORDON, LORD BYRON The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...the sea, 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... | |
 | William Spencer - 2000 - 156 páginas
...these famous lines by the nineteenth-century English poet Lord Byron: "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold." The Assyrians took their name from the god Ashur, worshiped along with his female counterpart Ishtar... | |
 | Michael J. Shapiro - 2001 - 234 páginas
...first two verses: The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the foal, And his cohorts were gleaming of purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was...the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, The host with their banners at sunset... | |
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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. 
