 | 1876 - 818 pages
...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." IT is wonderful how a brief record like an epitaph may hold in itself... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...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,5 and blossom in the dust. Shirley. This poem was written about the beginning of the 17th century.... | |
 | 1744 - 596 pages
...your mighty deeds ; Upon denth's purple altur now See where the victor-victim bleeds 1 All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. MOURN NOT. If death from thee the loved doth sever, Mourn not 1 The... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...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. THE WIDOW TO HER HOUR-GLASS. — Blaomfield. COME, friend, I '11 turn... | |
 | Henry CLISSOLD - 1847 - 276 pages
...their cold graves ; But the religious actions of the just Smell sweet in death, and blossom in the dust." Mr. George Herbert's have done so to this,...and will doubtless do so to succeeding generations. Part of a Letter written by Mr. George Herbert, to comfort his Mother, in her Sickness. Madam, —... | |
 | 1851 - 316 pages
...your mighty deeds : Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor-Tictim bleeds ; All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. THE UNIVERSALIST SILENCED. — A few years since, a Universalist in... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...mighty deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar, now, See where the victor victim bleeds : All heads must first sweet and blossom in the dust. Upon hit Mittmt Sad. Melancholy, hence, and get . Some piece of earth... | |
 | Jean Froissart, Enguerrand de Monstrelet - 1847 - 454 pages
...substantial things ; 6 There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings : All heads mast come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. CHAPTER IX. Death of King Charles — War against the Dauphin, or Charles... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 pages
...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 SHIRLEY. TEMPERANCE, OR THE CHEAP PHYSICIAN. Go now, and with... | |
 | Octavius Winslow - 1848 - 170 pages
...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."1 A few observations, in closing, addressed to the believing soldier.... | |
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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. 
