 | Frederick William N. Bayley - 1833 - 902 Seiten
...y«ur mighty deeds; Upon Dentil's purple altar now See where the victor- victim bleeds: Your heart must come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. These lines, set to music, were a great favorite with Charles the First ; and it is related that Oliver... | |
 | James Shirley - 1833 - 540 Seiten
...fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty...deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar now, See, where the victor-victim bleeds : Your heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet,... | |
 | James Shirley - 1833 - 540 Seiten
...must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands neither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar now, See, where the victor-victim bleeds : Your heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet,... | |
 | 1833 - 388 Seiten
...fat«, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds. Upon death's purple altiir now See where the victor victim bleeds ; All heads must come To the cold tomb. Only the actions... | |
 | James Shirley - 1833 - 540 Seiten
...murmuring breath , When they, pale captives, creep to death . The garlands wither on your brow, Tften boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar now, See, where the victor-victim bleeds : Your heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet,... | |
 | William Carleton - 1834 - 408 Seiten
...of truth and moral beauty. They now sleep in the same grave — for as the old poet well sings — " All heads must come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions...of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust." Never was the exquisite beauty of the closing thought, in these fine moral lines of Shirley, more touchingly... | |
 | Sophia Lee, Harriet Lee - 1834 - 496 Seiten
...mighty deeds ; For on Death's purple altar now Jo, where the victor, victim bleetls ! All heads.must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust SHIRLEY. *** IT drew towards evening, ere the Prior and his guest returned from visiting the ruin;... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1833 - 518 Seiten
...fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. " The garlands wither on your brow ; Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon dentil's purple altar now, See, where the victor victim bleeds : Your heads must come • To the cold... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 876 Seiten
...fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they pale captives creep to Death. The garlands wither on your brow ; Then boast no more your mighty...actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. If it be really true that this king admired these sentiments, he is entitled to the praise of having... | |
 | 1835 - 378 Seiten
...their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. * Percy reads " birth." The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty...deeds ; Upon death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds : All heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet,... | |
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Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives,... 
