 | English literature - 1832 - 348 pages
...following is the third and concluding stanza : " The garlands wither on your brow ; Then boast no more your mighty deeds : Upon death's purple altar now See where...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,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...— Then 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...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... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 pages
...breath, When they pale captives creep to death. 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 : All hands must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 858 pages
...hreath, When they pale captives creep to death. The garlands wither on your hrow, Then hoast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor victim hleeds : All hands must come To the cold tomh, Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and hlossom... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 388 pages
...The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds. Upon death's purple altiir now See where the victor victim bleeds ; All heads...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1833 - 594 pages
...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.' vol. vi., pp. 396, 397. At the Restoration Shirley had his full... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - American periodicals - 1833 - 528 pages
...When they, pale captives, creep to death. " 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1833 - 596 pages
...When they, pale captives, creep to death. 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... | |
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When they, pale captives, creep to death. 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 : All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just... 
