 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.  Echoes of Harper's Ferry ... - Page 438edited by - 1860 - 513 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Heseltine - Great Britain - 1829 - 250 pages
...I can ; For I must to the green-wood go, Alone, — A banish'd man ! THE NUT-BROWN MA IP. All heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blcwsom in the dust. SHIRLEY. IT could not have been more than a short half hour that I... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1830 - 878 pages
...more your mighty deeds : Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bl ceils: All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. If it be really true that this king admired these sentiments, he is entitled to the praise of having... | |
 | Health - 1830 - 336 pages
...more your mighty deeds. Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor's victims bleed. All heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust. PLEASURES OF OLD AGE. IT is the observation of a fine writer, that an " old man, who is not a fool,... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 pages
...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. PROVIDENCE. [POMFRET.] BOLD is the wretch, and blasphemous the man. Who, finite, will attempt to scan... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. SONNET TO SLEEP. COME, sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 348 pages
...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." Page 225. These little tracts annexed. In the first edition of Mr. Walton's Life of Dr. Sanderson,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1832 - 348 pages
...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." Page 225. These little tracts annexed. In the first edition of Mr. Walton's Life of Dr. Sanderson,... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...your mighty deeds; Upon death's purple altar now See where th« victor victim bleeds : All heads mast come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and bloisom in the dust— Shirley. arts. THE APOLLINARIAN games are annually celebrated under... | |
 | Frederick William N. Bayley - 1833 - 902 pages
...y«ur mighty deeds; Upon Dentil's purple altar now See where the victor- victim bleeds: Your heart must come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. These lines, set to music, were a great favorite with Charles the First ; and it is related that Oliver... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 388 pages
...more your mighty deeds. Upon death's purple altiir 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. The song we are about to introduce to our readers is really an Eng¡ixh songEnglish in sentiment, feeling,... | |
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