 | G. K. Chesterton - 2004 - 300 pagine
...final stanza of Byron's popular poem "The Destruction of Sennacherib" begins: And the widows of Asher are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal. 3. Paumanok: An Indian name for Long Island, the birthplace of Walt Whitman. Whitman used it for the... | |
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...And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail: And the...sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord! CHAPTER 13 Trilogy of the Assyrian Wisdom, Christ, and the Counterfeit The particular trilogy we shall... | |
 | Susan Wise Bauer - 2007 - 896 pagine
...of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still! And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And...sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord! ASSYRIA AND SURROUNDING LANDS Shamshi-Adad V (823-812) Sammu-amat Adad-nirari III Argishti (Urartu)... | |
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And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale,... 
