 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 - Page 617by Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 772 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 pages
...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...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 brow ! —... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...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...They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breatl' When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow ; Then boast no... | |
 | English poetry - 1858 - 396 pages
...scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: 10 But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame...fate, — And must give up their murmuring breath, 15 When they pale captives creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1858 - 396 pages
...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 - 882 pages
...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 - 368 pages
...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 - 354 pages
...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 - 150 pages
...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 - 418 pages
...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... | |
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