 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 to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now...  The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed - Page 328by Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1865Full view - About this book
 | 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
...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... | |
 | Health - 1830 - 336 pages
...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, and blossom in the dust. PLEASURES OF OLD AGE. IT is the observation of a fine writer, that an " old man, who is not a fool,... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1830 - 878 pages
...boast no more your mighty deeds : Upon 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 in the dust. If it be really true that this king admired these sentiments, he is entitled to the praise of having... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1832 - 348 pages
...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." Page 225. These little tracts annexed. In the first edition of Mr. Walton's Life of Dr. Sanderson,... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 348 pages
...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." Page 225. These little tracts annexed. In the first edition of Mr. Walton's Life of Dr. Sanderson,... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 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. PROVIDENCE. [POMFRET.] BOLD is the wretch, and blasphemous the man. Who, finite, will attempt to scan... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...your mighty deeds; Upon death's purple altar now See where th« victor victim bleeds : All heads mast come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and bloisom in the dust— Shirley. arts. THE APOLLINARIAN games are annually celebrated under... | |
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