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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. "
The Every Day Book, Or, A Guide to the Year: Describing the Popular ... - Page 360
by William Hone - 1826
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Sacred Poetry: Consisting of Selections from the Works of the Most Admired ...

Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 pages
...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. PROVIDENCE. [POMFRET.] BOLD is the wretch, and blasphemous the man. Who, finite, will attempt to scan...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. SONNET TO SLEEP. COME, sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place...
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Walton's Lives

English literature - 1832 - 348 pages
...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." Page 225. These little tracts annexed. In the first edition of Mr. Walton's Life of Dr. Sanderson,...
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The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirror, Volume 2

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...
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The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée, Volume 2

English literature - 1833 - 388 pages
...more your mighty deeds. Upon death's purple altiir 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. The song we are about to introduce to our readers is really an Eng¡ixh songEnglish in sentiment, feeling,...
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The National standard, of literature, science, music [&c.] ed. by ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 49

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
...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...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, Volume 6

James Shirley - 1833 - 540 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 their dust. } Agam. Set forward to the temple. This was once A day of triumph,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 49

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
...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...
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Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature, Volume 2

Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - American periodicals - 1833 - 528 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 their dust." Vol. vi. pp. 396, 397. At the Restoration Shirley had his full share...
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