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" The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some... "
A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry - Página 30
de Charles Mackay - 1896 - 633 páginas
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Fasti Eboracenses: Lives of the Archbishops of York, Volume 1

William Henry Dixon - 1863 - 714 páginas
...monarch would muse upon those startling thoughts which a later poet so beautifully moulded into verse. " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not...down. And in the dust be equal made With the poor humble scythe and spade." Was he ready for the change which even he was to expect ? He voluntarily...
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Things to be Remembered in Daily Life ...

John Timbs - 1863 - 280 páginas
...scythe occurs in Shirley's lines, written early in the seventeenth century : The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Shakspeare prefers the scythe : Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, And delves the parallels...
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Half-hours with our sacred poets [an anthology] ed. by A.H. Grant

Half hours - 1863 - 408 páginas
...state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And...Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurela where they kill ; But their strong nerves at last must yield, They tame but one another...
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Flowers and Fruit Gathered by Loving Hands from Old English Gardens

Emily Taylor - 1864 - 210 páginas
...this dust falls to the urn, In that state which I came, return. HENRY VAUGHAN. DEATH'S CONQUEST. |HE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial...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...
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Spelling and dictation class-book

Constable and co, ltd - 1864 - 136 páginas
...patience will succeed where force fails. Necessity is the mother of invention. XXIX. DEATH THE LEVELLER. The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not...equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. All heads must come XXX. GREAT BRITAIN. Yet unless I greatly deceive myself, the general effect of...
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The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed, Volume 1

Leigh Hunt - 1864 - 350 páginas
...CONQUEST. The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things : There is no armor against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings :...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...
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The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed, Volume 1

Leigh Hunt - 1864 - 340 páginas
...CONQUEST. The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things : There is no armor against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings :...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...
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English Sacred Poetry of the Olden Time

Lewis Borrett White - 1864 - 232 páginas
...the poetical vigour of the first three, and are not worth printing here. THE VANITY OF VAIN GLORY. THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not...and crown must tumble down, And in the dust be equal laid With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords do reap the field, And plant fresh...
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Growing Up with Poetry: An Anthology for Secondary Schools

David Rubadiri - 1989 - 132 páginas
...be no more. Death, thou shalt die. John Donne (England) Death the leveller The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There...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...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...OxBoLi; PoRA JAMES SHIRLEY (1596-1666) The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses 1 The glories of our blood ueaking In fifty different sharps and flats. (1. 10-20) 61 "Please your honors," said he, "I'm (1. 1—8) 2 They stoop to fate. And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives,...
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