 | Robert Bell - Ballads, English - 1855 - 284 pages
...When they, pale captives, creep to death. * This is said to have been a favourite song of Charles II. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more...of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT. 1605—1668. [!F we cannot discover in the tedious poem of Gondibert any satisfactory... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...still.1 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...of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust. Shirley. HELVELLYN.3 I CLIMBED the dark brow of the mighty Helvellyn, ' Lakes and mountains beneath... | |
 | William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 pages
...still. Early or late, they stoop to fate, And must give up their conquering breath, When they, pale captives, creep to Death. The garlands wither on your...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... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Numismatics - 1910 - 594 pages
...legend on the obverse is taken from James Shirley's The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses (1659) — " Your heads must come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions...the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust." A specimen of the second variety, in the British Musenm Collection, has had the reverse inscription... | |
 | David Rubadiri - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1989 - 132 pages
...another still: Early or late They stoop to fate. And must give up the murmuring breath When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your...of the just Smell sweet and blossom in their dust. James Shirley (England) Prayer to the moon Take my face and give me yours! Take my face, my unhappy... | |
 | R. R. Agrawal - Art - 1990 - 316 pages
...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.46 The concluding lines refer to the inevitability of death: The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast...deeds; Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds: All heads must come To the cold tomb.46 Similarly, a fine philosophical song,... | |
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Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, poor... 
