 | William Parsons Lunt - Bible - 1848 - 146 pages
...more your mighty deeds; Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds! 4 All heads must come to the cold tomb: Only the actions of the just Preserve in death a rich perfume, Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. III. SELECTIONS FKOM THE SCRIPTURES.... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 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. GEORGE WITHER. THIS poet was bom of a good family at Bentworth, near Alton, in 1588, and at sixteen... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1851 - 332 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. WHEN THIS OLD CAP WAS NEW. Anonymous. AD 1666. From a black-letter copy among the KoJborgh Songs and... | |
 | 1851 - 558 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. BOTH WORLDS HAVE THEIR PROPER BUSINESS. Consider the great purposes of the present Tife can be answered... | |
 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...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. SOLILOQUY ON PEATH. I HAVE not lived After the rate to fear another world. We come from nothing into... | |
 | Christian poets - Christian poetry, English - 1851 - 470 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 the dust. t : HE CAN CARRY NOTHING WITH IIIM WHEN HE DIETH." WAGES of Sin is death : the day is come. Wherein... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Sermons, American - 1852 - 464 pages
...more his 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." 'If he could speak to us from his present position, methinks he would say: Countrymen and friends! You... | |
 | R. W. Vanderkiste - London (England) - 1852 - 380 pages
...arms' mighty deeds, Upon death's purple altar now — See here the martial victim bleeds. All heads must come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in the dust." I cannot well prolong this narrative by detailing the gracious expressions the dying soldier uttered.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 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. 26. RELIGION OF REVOLUTIONARY MEN. — Original Adaptation from Lamartine. I KNOW — I sigh when I... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 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. ». RELIGION OF REVOLUTIONARY MEN. — Original Adaptation from Lamarline. I KNOW — I sigh when I... | |
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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. 
