 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pages
...the cannonade. Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such aecursed instruments as these, Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down tho dark future, through long generations, The echoing... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1855 - 690 pages
...celestial harmonies ? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bcstow'd e overwhelming dash Tbt wave and wind can muster,...thy charmed ear, And radiant learning beckon'd thee Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing... | |
 | James Booth - Education - 1856 - 212 pages
...remember that the march of civilization has more than once been stayed and turned back. They know, " Were half the power, that fills the world with terror,...error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts." Let us, too, humbly hope that we shall not be fated to afford another verification of the maxim of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies 1 Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing... | |
 | Sir James Edward Alexander - 1857 - 356 pages
...musketry, the clashing blade, And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Were half the power that fills the world with terror—...bestowed on camps and courts— Given to redeem the mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts." On the 7th of September the weather was... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarres t the celestial harmonies Î Were half the power, that fills the world with terror,...again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...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,...again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...celestial harmonies ? 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...again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! l Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing... | |
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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 of arsenals nor forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! 
