 | English poets - 1801 - 488 pagina’s
...brow, Then boast 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...of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust. THOMAS MAY, A celebrated poet and historian, bom about 1590, in Sussex, of a worshipful but decayed... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 476 pagina’s
...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...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,... | |
 | 1806 - 688 pagina’s
...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...purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds : All heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the acUoiu of tue just Smell sweet and blossom in the... | |
 | 1807 - 308 pagina’s
...They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breatl), When they pale captives creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more...purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds : All heads must come To the cold tom.b, Only the aflions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in the... | |
 | Charles Snart - 1808 - 506 pagina’s
...They stoop to fate, And must give up their murm'ring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more...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... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1812 - 518 pagina’s
...VOL. i. r, And And must give up their murmuring breath, 15 When they pale captives creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more...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... | |
 | 1819 - 394 pagina’s
...And must give up their murm'ring breath, When the pale captive creeps to death. The laurel withers on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds,...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... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1815 - 476 pagina’s
...has often sung to me. " The glories of our birth and state," &c. and therein also the fine lines, " Your heads must come To the cold tomb ! Only the actions...the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust."* ART. CLXIII. Pleasure's Vision; with Desert's Complaint : and a Short Dialogue of a Woman's properties,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
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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 still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives,... 
