| English poets - 1801 - 454 pages
...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,...your mighty deeds ; Upon death's purple altar now, S«e where the victor-victim bleeds. Your heads must come To the" cold tomb ; Only the actions of the... | |
| English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...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,...wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deedi ; Upon death's purple altar now, See where the victor-victim bleeds. Your heads must come To... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...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,...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,... | |
| George Ellis - 1803 - 474 pages
...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 the dust. THOMAS MAY, A celebrated poet and historian, bom about 1508, in Sussex, of a worshipful but decayed... | |
| 1806 - 688 pages
...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 creep...bleeds : All heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the acUoiu of tue just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust LIVES to the memory of the celebrated • MUNGO... | |
| Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...down, And 108 Prince Leboo. And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade ; All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. .+- PRINCE LEBOO. FHOM the mighty Pa«ific,with soft-swelling waves That a thousand bright regions... | |
| 1807 - 308 pages
...but one another still. Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breatl), When they pale captives creep to death. The garlands...: All heads must come To the cold tom.b, Only the aflions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. SONG. BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, CRABBED Age... | |
| Charles Snart - Poetry - 1808 - 506 pages
...They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murm'ring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death....actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust Percy's Reliquet. AN INSCRIPTION. STRANGER, that, with careless feet, Wand'resl near this green retreat,... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...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,...of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust. SAB TNG TON. TO THE SUN. FPHOU art return'd, great Light, to that blest hour *- In which I first, by... | |
| Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 518 pages
...still. Early or late They stoop to fate, VOL. i. r, And And must give up their murmuring breath, 15 When they pale captives creep to death. The garlands...purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds : 20 All heads must come . To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom... | |
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