| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 188 Seiten
...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 duct. SHIBLBT. I999 Sabbat!) WELCOME, thou peaceful dawn ! O'er field and wooded lawn The wonted sound... | |
| Sir Robert Adair - 1844 - 564 Seiten
...midst of works such as these ! There is no blood upon them to be sure, but true glory writes on his tomb — \ " Only the actions of THE JUST Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust." f The little that now remains to show the worth of this publication shall be done by the author himself.... | |
| Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 Seiten
...deeds ; Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor-victim bleeds; All heads must come To tlie cold tomb ; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the 'lust. Hall of Abencerrages. THE ALHAMBRA. DARK frown thy hills, thou land of beauty and .omance, and... | |
| 1876 - 818 Seiten
...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." IT is wonderful how a brief record like an epitaph may hold in itself and convey to the reader a revelation... | |
| William Goodman - 1845 - 440 Seiten
...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." It is said to have been a favourite song with that profligate man, King Charles H. ; it is to be regretted,... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...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,5 and blossom in the dust. Shirley. This poem was written about the beginning of the 17th century.... | |
| 1744 - 596 Seiten
...boast no 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 1851 - 316 Seiten
...boast no 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... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 Seiten
...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. —JAMES SHIRLEY. TEMPERANCE, OR THE CHEAP PHYSICIAN. Go now, and with some daring drug Bait thy disease... | |
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