 Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!  The English Presbyterian messenger - Seite 84von Presbyterian Church of England - 1857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 372 Seiten
...the clashing blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. 8. Is it, O Man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed...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, Were half... | |
 | 1875 - 652 Seiten
...anon in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. The Founding of the Bell. 283 " Is it, oh, man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed...Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And j arrest the celestial harmonies ? " Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1867 - 482 Seiten
...musketry, the clashing blade; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed...these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, I And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 Seiten
...his carnage and his conquest cease ! He makes a solitude, and calls it peace. Byron, Br.ofAb. n.20. "Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the world bestow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of... | |
 | Henry Martyn Burt - 1867 - 294 Seiten
...clashing blade— And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, ... The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thq|i drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? "Were half the... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1867 - 416 Seiten
...arms and the din of hell itself for the melodious chimes that call to prayer and praise. "Is it, 0 man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drowncst Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ?" « The Custom House... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 Seiten
...ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man, with such discordant With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest...kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? V/ere half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and... | |
 | John Plummer - 1868 - 328 Seiten
...blade; And ever and anoti, in tones of thunder, The diapason ot the cannonade. " Is it, O man, that such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments...these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, Andjarrest the celestial harmonies?" Longfellow. THE GUNPOWDEE CONQUEEOR /"\NE bright morning, during... | |
 | Amasa Walker - 1869 - 562 Seiten
...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, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courti, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts." The mind... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1869 - 128 Seiten
...think for themselves on political and religious questions. Well, may the great American poet sing : — "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 from error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
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