 Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices. And jarrest the celestial harmonies? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed...  Poems - Σελίδα 102των Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 σελίδες
...blindness, Melting all spirits earthly into one, And leaving holiness and joy — 'TIS KINDNESS. DK LEE. Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...no need of arsenals nor forts. The warrior's name by all would be abhorred ! And every nation that should lift again Its hand against a brother, on its... | |
 | Joshua Priestley - 1859 - 334 σελίδες
...Leaving the subject until ' the day shall declare it,' I felt content to reason with Longfellow : ' Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ; And every nation that should lift again Its... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 468 σελίδες
...village ; The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns ; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage ; The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder,...courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error * The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift again Its hand against... | |
 | 1860 - 430 σελίδες
...Florida ; better than if we had an army of a million Zouaves, and a fleet of armed Great Easterns. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts." u The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift again Its hand against... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 σελίδες
...who rose up against tyranny, were themselves deeply tainted with the vices that tyranny engenders. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorr'd, And every nation that should lift again Its... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - 1860 - 448 σελίδες
...accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voiees, And jarrest the eelestial harmonies ? Were half the power, that fills the world...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should... | |
 | 106 σελίδες
...in the estimation of his employer, for having shown a sense of his duty as a Christian. THE ARSENAL. WERE half the power that fills the world with terror,...forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! .' i And every nation that should lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 σελίδες
...celestial harmonics ' Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind...should lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forchead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! 1 Down the dark future, through long generations,... | |
 | John Cumming - 1863 - 340 σελίδες
...beneficence, and charity, and self-sacrifice. The poet has sung with some exaggeration a great truth:— " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts." We thus write, not because we have any sympathy whatever with Messrs. Bright and Cobden... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 σελίδες
...as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And j arrest the celestial harmonies ! 9. Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals aud forts. 10. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! ' And every nation that should lift again... | |
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