 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.  The Quarterly Review - Page 8edited by - 1833Full view - About this book
 | English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...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 pages
...: 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 the dust. THOMAS MAY, A celebrated poet and historian, born about 1596, in Sussex,... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...down, And 108 Prince Leboo. And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade ; All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. .+- PRINCE LEBOO. FHOM the mighty Pa«ific,with soft-swelling waves... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 912 pages
...has often sung to me. " The glories of eur birth and state/' &c. and therein also the fine lines, " Your heads must come To the cold tomb! Only the actions of the just imell sv.-eet, and blossom in their dust." * ART. XIII. The First Four Books of Argil's JEneis, translated... | |
 | 1808 - 506 pages
...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 Percy's Reliquet. AN INSCRIPTION. STRANGER, that, with careless feet,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...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. SAB TNG TON. TO THE SUN. FPHOU art return'd, great Light, to that blest... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1812 - 518 pages
...more your mighty deeds ; Upon death's 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 in the dust. . . f 1 I lu 1 ... Ill;• ' -•• THE RISING IN THE NORTH. The subject... | |
 | 1819 - 394 pages
...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.* SONG XI. BY DR. DALTON.-| NOR on beds of fading flowers, Shedding... | |
 | Richard Clark - 1814 - 530 pages
...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 Shirly, died 1766. These fine mural stanzas were originally intended... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1815 - 476 pages
...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,... | |
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