 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 354 ページ
...Death lays his icy hand on kings. Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor, crooked scythe and spade. ' 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 ページ
...shadows, not substantial things ; Sceptre 2ixl Crown Most tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the neld. And must give np then- murmuring breath When they, pale captives, creep to death. And plant fresh... | |
 | Elizabethan age - 1862 - 83 ページ
...Death lays his icy hands on kings; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. 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... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 ページ
...Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. 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... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 ページ
...Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. 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... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 ページ
...Death lays his icy hand on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves at length must yield ; They tame but one another... | |
 | D. H. Rawlinson - 1968 - 254 ページ
...Kings, Scepter and Crown, Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made, With the poor crooked sithe and spade. 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... | |
 | David Rubadiri - 1989 - 132 ページ
...Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. 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... | |
 | Mike Royston - 1998 - 246 ページ
...Death lays his icy hand on kings; Sceptre and Crown 5 Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: 10 But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another... | |
 | Nahdjla Carasco Bailey - 2014 - 132 ページ
...Death lays his icy hand on kings: s Sceptre and crown, Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, 10 And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but... | |
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The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some... 
