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... An Evening with Longfellow - Page 53by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1907 - 111 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 468 pages
...With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power that...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...she sleeps.1 1 Were half the power that fills the world with terroi, Were half the wealth, bestow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts I The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! THE POET'S MORNING. My morning haunts are,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 910 pages
...With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power, that...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift again... | |
| Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...banker. Those Christians best deserve the name, Who studiously make peace their aim. — Cowper. — 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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1862 - 546 pages
...blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man, with snch discordant noises, With such accursed instruments...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts . The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift again... | |
| Almanacs - 106 pages
...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,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! .' i And every nation that should lift again... | |
| 1862 - 658 pages
...and the fierce shouts of angrv hosts, may hear once more " Nature's sweet aud kindly voices.' Ah! ' " Were half the power that fills the world with terror...Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, (iiven to redeem the human mind from Krror, Tin-re were no need of arsenals nor forte!" LILLIE BROWNE.... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...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 bestow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrcat the 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 from error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
| Joshua Rhodes Balme - Freed persons - 1863 - 308 pages
...has lost all control, and for the subjugation of whom he uses all his powers and resources in vain. " Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ; And every nation that should lift again Its... | |
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