 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...Ljke 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,...ever grew still ! And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1838 - 242 pages
...blown, t f That host on the morrow lay Tft^red and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wingsjon the 'blast, And breathed in the face of the 'foe as...and chill, And their hearts but once 'heaved, and *(br«^£ «^st ill And there lay the 'steed with his nostrils alljyide, But thro' them there rolled... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1838 - 584 pages
...the leaves of the forest which autumn liath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strotvn: For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast And breathed in the face of ihc fne as he pass'd; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly ¡ind chill, And their hearts bat once... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1839 - 232 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, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd ; And the eyes of the sleepers waz'd deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heav'd, and... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...Like the leaves of the forest when autumn has 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 pass'd ; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their hearts butonce heaved, and... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1839 - 510 pages
...planned the destruction of Jerusalem, and whose army was arrested, overthrown, and destroyed : — " For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd." But this opinion, though correct as far as it goes, only embraces a small part of the prophet's... | |
 | Emily Taylor - American poetry - 1839 - 306 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, And breathed on the face of the foe as he past ; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their... | |
 | C. Palfrey - Liberalism (Religion) - 1840 - 754 pages
...may not indeed be swept away in a moment, as the hosts of the Assyrian king before Jerusalem, " When the angel of death spread his wings on the blast,...breathed in the face of the foe as he passed, And the might nf the Gentile, unsmote bv the sword, Was melted, like snow, in the glance of the Lord." Yet... | |
 | Christian - English poetry - 1840 - 312 pages
...the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. i For the Angel of Death spread his wings on 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 heaved, and... | |
 | Christian - English poetry - 1840 - 318 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, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd ; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And then- hearts but once heaved, and... | |
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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... 
