 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
 | 1864 - 428 σελίδες
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies i Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Down the dark future, through iong generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; And... | |
 | Viator - 1864 - 302 σελίδες
...there could hardly be any use in such constant forging of implements of war in this civilized land. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts." Besides the evidences that war is really upon us which are presented in the active preparation... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 σελίδες
...burning village ; The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns ; The soldier's revels in the undst of pillage ; The wail of famine in beleaguered towns...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... | |
 | Henry Willis Baxley - 1865 - 660 σελίδες
...organ shakes the skies ! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise. "Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, 9 There were no need of arsenals nor forts. " The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every... | |
 | Amasa Walker - 1866 - 532 σελίδες
...day of time. It is only one part of this possibility at which the poet looked, when he said: — " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts." The mind can hardly lift itself to see — " What might be done, if men were wise." Yet... | |
 | Amasa Walker - 1866 - 554 σελίδες
...day of time. It is only one part of this possibility at which the poet looked, when he said : — " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...mind from error, • There were no need of arsenals and forts." The mind can hardly lift itself to see — " What might be done, if men were wise." Yet... | |
 | 1866 - 646 σελίδες
...day of time. It is only one part of this possibility at which the. poet looked when he said : — " ' Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arnsenals and forts.' " The mind can hardly lift itself to see — ' What might be done, if men were... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1867 - 482 σελίδες
...noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, I And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the...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... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 372 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 and forts. 10. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred I And every nation that should lift again... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 σελίδες
...as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ! 9. Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. 10. The warrior's name would be a name'abhorred! And every natien that should lift again... | |
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