 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1816 - 234 pages
...leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. III. 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 226 pages
...leaves of the forest when Autumn hath , blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. III. 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... | |
 | 1818 - 384 pages
...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 blast, grew still. And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there rolled not the... | |
 | Henry John Temple Palmerston (Viscount), John Wilson Croker, Robert Peel - 1819 - 258 pages
...leaves of the forest when Antumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. III. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he past ; DEBATE ON THE NAVY ESTIMATES. 1. Old TIERNEY came down like a wolf on the fold, And his phalanx... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 306 pages
...the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown , That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. 8. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,...deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and forever grew still ! 4. And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. III. 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... | |
 | 1819 - 996 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1876 - 1204 pages
...swiftness, suddenness, and awful silence of wide-spread death are described with inimitable force, " For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed on the face of the foe as he passed." Then the empty tents, furled banners, unlif ted lances, and hushed... | |
 | 1822 - 494 pages
...the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host, on the morrow, lie wither'd and strewn. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breath' d in the face of the foe as he past ; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill —... | |
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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 blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed... 
