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, and blossom in their dust. The Quarterly Review - Page 8edited by - 1833Full view - About this book
| William Goodman - 1844 - 378 pages
...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 and blossom in the dust." It is said to have been a favourite song with that profligate man,... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...: 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,5 and blossom in the dust. Shirley. This poem was written about the beginning of the 17th century.... | |
| William Goodman - 1845 - 440 pages
...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 and blossom in the dust." It is said to have been a favourite song with that profligate man,... | |
| 1876 - 818 pages
...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 and blossom in the dust." IT is wonderful how a brief record like an epitaph may hold in itself... | |
| 1744 - 596 pages
...no more your mighty deeds ; Upon denth's purple altur now See where the victor-victim bleeds 1 All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. MOURN NOT. If death from thee the loved doth sever, Mourn not 1 The... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...more your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds ; All hands must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. THE WIDOW TO HER HOUR-GLASS. — Blaomfield. COME, friend, I '11 turn... | |
| 1851 - 316 pages
...no more your mighty deeds : Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor-Tictim bleeds ; All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. THE UNIVERSALIST SILENCED. — A few years since, a Universalist in... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...no more your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar, now, See where the victor victim bleeds : All For women first sweet and blossom in the dust. Upon hit Mittmt Sad. Melancholy, hence, and get . Some piece of earth... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 pages
...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, and blossom in the dust. —JAMES SHIRLEY. TEMPERANCE, OR THE CHEAP PHYSICIAN. Go now, and with... | |
| Jean Froissart, Enguerrand de Monstrelet - 1847 - 454 pages
...substantial things ; 6 There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings : All heads mast come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. CHAPTER IX. Death of King Charles — War against the Dauphin, or Charles... | |
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