They tame but one another still: Early or late 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 your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now... Miscellanies - Page 248by Henry David Thoreau - 1898 - 429 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1822 - 796 pages
...boast no more your mighty deeds: Upon death's purple altar uo\v 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. JAMKS SHIRLEY,— Died 1660. THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE. How happy is he born, or taught, That serveth... | |
| 1839 - 1092 pages
...your mighty deeds ; '-,-•' Death's purple altar now See where the victor-victim bleed} : Your • heads must come To the cold tomb: Only the actions of the just Smell sweet; and blossom in their dust."t Vol. vi.. pp. 39fi, 397. It is not surprising that this dirgo baa... | |
| 1822 - 792 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 jnst Smelj sweet, and blos,som in the dust. JAMKS SIIIRLRV,— Died 1666. THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY... | |
| 1823 - 408 pages
...я-вф|Аа;леуо? yàg >)í тех' èy Çeooïs' тгЕф|Ла^£Уо^ yüy IVo'eai ey ya' 1 All heads roust come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. сгочлГ т/ 7гЛ.>)У î ôenov ye TÚ/*j3oy .'.&'•..,* Sí« I^M lin ".CU gl/ Qg 1"»lfiM«l... | |
| Englishman - 1824 - 420 pages
...of mourning, the concluding passage of the fine old moral stanzas which we have just quoted : — " All heads must come To the cold tomb ; — Only the...of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust." The commencement of his late Majesty's reign was in every respect popular. It is difficult to estimate... | |
| William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...boast no more your mighty deeds : Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds: iam Hone If it be really true that this king admired these sentiments, he is entitled to the praise of having... | |
| William Lincoln, Christopher Columbus Baldwin - 1826 - 906 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'. SELECTED FROM COKDER'S POEMI. HOME. THAT is not home, where day by day I wear the busy hours away.... | |
| William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...more your mighty deeds t Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds: All head» here was, I know not how, an alarme begun, that the French and Dutch, with whom we were now in If it be really true that this king admired these sentiments, he is entitled to the praise of having... | |
| William Hone - 1826 - 892 pages
...more your mighty deeds : Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds: All hf ads 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 admirrtl these sentiments, he is entitled to the praise of having... | |
| William Hone - 1868 - 846 pages
...deeds! Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds: All heads must come To the rold 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... | |
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