 | William Goodman - 1845 - 440 Seiten
...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." It is said to have been a favourite song with that profligate man, King Charles H. ; it is to be regretted,... | |
 | 1876 - 818 Seiten
...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." IT is wonderful how a brief record like an epitaph may hold in itself and convey to the reader a revelation... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...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,5 and blossom in the dust. Shirley. This poem was written about the beginning of the 17th century.... | |
 | 1846 - 436 Seiten
...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. THE WIDOW TO HER HOUR-GLASS. — Blaomfield. COME, friend, I '11 turn them up again ; Companion of... | |
 | 1744 - 596 Seiten
...more your mighty deeds ; Upon denth's purple altur 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. MOURN NOT. If death from thee the loved doth sever, Mourn not 1 The good are parted not forever, Mourn... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 Seiten
...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. —JAMES SHIRLEY. TEMPERANCE, OR THE CHEAP PHYSICIAN. Go now, and with some daring drug Bait thy disease... | |
 | 1851 - 316 Seiten
...more your mighty deeds : Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor-Tictim bleeds ; All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. THE UNIVERSALIST SILENCED. — A few years since, a Universalist in one of the western states, .who... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar, now, See where the victor victim bleeds : All heads omen first Upon hit Mittmt Sad. Melancholy, hence, and get . Some piece of earth to be thy seat, Here the air... | |
 | Jean Froissart, Enguerrand de Monstrelet - 1847 - 454 Seiten
...substantial things ; 6 There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings : All heads mast come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. CHAPTER IX. Death of King Charles — War against the Dauphin, or Charles VIII., carried on by the... | |
 | Octavius Winslow - 1848 - 170 Seiten
...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."1 A few observations, in closing, addressed to the believing soldier. There are many such, we... | |
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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: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust. 
