 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,...  The Englishman's fire-side - Page 72Full view - About this book
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...or late, They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they pale captives creep r their reliefe by proclamation for the country to come in and refresh them with t Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds: All head» must come To the cold... | |
 | William Heseltine, Plantagenet (House.) - 1829 - 596 pages
...other rede I can ; For I must to the green-wood go, Alone, — A banish'd man ! TH« NUT-BBOWII MAID. All heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions...of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust. IT could not have been more than a short half hour that I had been thus sleeping, when I was hastily... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...Then hoast no more your mighty deeds; '.'•I 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 from the dust. SUDDEN DEATH. ( A real occurrence. ) EDMESTON. WHIUH is the happiest... | |
 | William Heseltine - Great Britain - 1829 - 250 pages
...other rede I can ; For I must to the green-wood go, Alone, — A banish'd man ! THE NUT-BROWN MA IP. All heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blcwsom in the dust. SHIRLEY. IT could not have been more than a short half hour that I... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1830 - 878 pages
...late, , They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they pale captives creep to Death. The garlands wither on your brow ; Then...Death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bl ceils: All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1830 - 330 pages
...for how must such affecting and sublime images as these have been felt by him to his inmost heart: The garlands wither on your brow! Then boast no more...deeds! Upon Death's purple altar now See where the Victor-victim bleeds! * The music of Coleman was published by Henry Laws in 1669 , in a book entitled,... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - Anglican Communion - 1830 - 332 pages
...for how must such affecting and sublime images as these have been felt by him to his inmost heart : The garlands wither on your brow ! Then boast no more...deeds ! Upon Death's purple altar now See where the Victor-victim bleeds ! * The music of Coleman was published by Henry Laws in 1669 in a book entitled,... | |
 | Health - 1830 - 336 pages
...murmuring hreath v When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, They boast no more your mighty deeds. Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor's victims bleed. All heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet,... | |
 | English literature - 1830 - 542 pages
...\V. . vi. LINES WRITTEN ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. JOHN JENKINS, MA, BY ROBERT FOLKESTONE WILLIAMS. " All heads must come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions of Ihe just Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust." SHIRLEY. THE flower, whose beauty fades before our... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 348 pages
...seized with great terror and agitation of mind. The following is the third and concluding stanza : " The garlands wither on your brow ; Then boast no more...of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust." Page 225. These little tracts annexed. In the first edition of Mr. Walton's Life of Dr. Sanderson,... | |
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