 | English poets - 1801 - 488 ページ
...no more your mighty deedi ; 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. THOMAS MAY, A celebrated poet and historian, bom about 1590, in Sussex,... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 474 ページ
...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... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1806 - 688 ページ
...pale captives creep to death The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds, Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor...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... | |
 | 1807 - 308 ページ
...pale captives creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds, Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor...: 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... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 912 ページ
...often sung to me. " The glories of eur birth and state/' &c. and therein also the fine lines, " Your heads must come To the cold tomb! Only the actions of the just imell sv.-eet, and blossom in their dust." * ART. XIII. The First Four Books of Argil's JEneis, translated... | |
 | 1808 - 506 ページ
...pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor...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 - 1809 - 512 ページ
...captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon death's purple altar now, See where the victor...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 - 1812 - 518 ページ
...boast no more your mighty 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. . . f 1 I lu 1 ... Ill;• ' -•• THE RISING IN THE NORTH. The subject of this bahad is the great... | |
 | 1819 - 394 ページ
...pale captive creeps to death. The laurel withers on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds, Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor-...of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust.* SONG XI. BY DR. DALTON.-| NOR on beds of fading flowers, Shedding soon their gaudy pride ; Nor with... | |
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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. 
