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, pale... Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson - الصفحة 617بواسطة Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 772عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| George Gilfillan - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...spade. Some men with s%vords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: 10 But then- strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one...to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, is When they pale captives creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your... | |
| William Hone - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 882
...made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill; But their strong nerves at...murmuring breath, When they pale captives creep to Death. The garlands wither on your brow ; Then boasl no more your mighty deeds : Upon Death's purple altar... | |
| Sunbeams - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves...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... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...With the poor, crooked scythe and spade. ' Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves...breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death.' " The Prince had turned away, and appeared in a meditative mood, when the Wasp aroused his attention... | |
| Elizabethan age - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 150
...made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves...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,... | |
| Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves...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... | |
| Choice poems - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves...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,... | |
| English poets - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 626
...swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves at length must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early...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... | |
| 1863 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill : But their strong nerves...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... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1863 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men •with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves...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... | |
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