The title character lays "distorted and pale, / With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail.
The title character lays "distorted and pale, / With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail." He is said to have a "Gentile's might," which melts "like snow in the glance of the Lord!" Of course the "Angel of Death has spread his wings" on the title character's host, which was gleaming "in purple and gold," but that host falls victim to the plague outside of Jerusalem. FTP, name this poem which begins with the title character's forces coming "down like the wolf on the fold," a Lord Byron work on the downfall of an Assyrian king.
The title character lays "distorted and pale, / With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail.
“The {Destruction of Sennacherib}”