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 and blossom in the dust. The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed - Page 336by Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1864 - 390 pagesFull view - About this book
| Irish literature - 1857 - 866 pages
...they rest like loving brothers. Some old poet has appropriately said : 14 All hearts must come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.'1 64 Sketches of the South of Ireland. [April, I often visited the ruins of the old priory of... | |
| English poetry - 1858 - 396 pages
...deeds; Upon death's 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 in the dust. III. THE RISING IN THE NORTH. The subject of this ballad is the great Northern Insurrection in the... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 pages
...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."* The amiable and gifted Qnnt Cnglor, the last time she took up her pen — it was on the day preceding... | |
| James Redpath - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 530 pages
...event, is brought out distinctly like an invisible writing held to the fire: AH heada must come To the cold tomb, — Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. We have heard that the Boston lady * who recently visited our hero in prison, found him wearing still... | |
| Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...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. Shirley. [1600.] — I have not lived After the rate to fear another world. We come from nothing into life ;... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 312 pages
...deeds; Upon death's purple altar, 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. JAMES SHIRLEY. FROM A BALLAD UPOK A WEDDING. THE maid, and thereby hangs a tale, For such a maid no... | |
| Amelia B. Edwards - English poetry - 1878 - 332 pages
...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. y. Skirley. CHANCES AND CHANGES. THE lopped tree in time may grow again, Most naked plants renew both... | |
| John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 232 pages
...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. -33T. HsYWOOD.— Date of Birth unknown. Died 1643. Thomas Heywood was a native of Lincolnshire, and... | |
| Churchman - 1879 - 322 pages
...deeds : Upon Death's purple altar now, See where the victor-victim bleeds I Your heads must come To the cold tomb. Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. JAMES SHIELEY. OCTOBEE 1i. And there in white white robes they walk, And there the palms they wave,... | |
| Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 pages
...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. J. SHIRLEY. '57Constance hears that the King of France (who had swom to support the claims of her son... | |
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