 | English poetry - 1858 - 396 pages
...piece. It is said to have been a favourite Song with K. Charles II. 1 THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate: Death lays his icy hands on kings: Scepter and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1860 - 578 pages
...foregoing piece. It is said to have been a favourite song with K. Charles II. THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings : Scepter and crown 5 Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor... | |
 | Jacob Cats, Robert Farlie - Emblems - 1860 - 274 pages
...of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; j_ There is no armour against fate, Q Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, o And in the dust be equal made I With the poor crooked scythe and spade. — SHIRLEY. h WE spend our... | |
 | Octavius Winslow - 1861 - 114 pages
...Death triumphs over everything but this — this it cannot conquer. " The glories of our blood and 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 in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...perfumes. James Shirley. Born 1594. Died 1666. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. THE glories of our birth and 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 in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | Elizabethan age - English poetry - 1862 - 83 pages
...that makes more short the night. ROBERT HERRICK DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. THE glories of our birth and 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 in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | David Thomas - 1863 - 750 pages
...grass. Old winter strips the giant oak, as well as the sapling willow. " The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hands on kings. Sceptre and erowu Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 478 pages
...cause of virtue ; and they well agree with the blameless life he led.] THE glories of our birth and 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, J And in the dust be equal made With the poor... | |
 | Half hours - 1863 - 408 pages
...unsusceptible of grave and serious reflection. DEATH'S FINAL CONQUEST. The glories of our birth and 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 in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...cause of virtue ; and they well agree with the blameless life he led.] THE glories of our birth and 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, 176 " THE GLORIES OF OUR BIRTH AND STATE." And... | |
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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 hands on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. 
