 | International peace society - 232 páginas
...wrench'd asunder, The rattling musketry, the clashing blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of tbuuder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man ! with...noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownost Nature's sweet arid kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? Were half the power... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 440 páginas
...pillage, The wail of famine in beleaguered towns ! The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, 10 The rattling musketry, the clashing blade ; And ever...discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, 15 Thou drownest nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 páginas
...the cannonade. Is it, 0 man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, 15 Thou drownest nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, 20 There were no need... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1846 - 178 páginas
...with dreadful din, And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin ; The tumult of each sacked and burning village...half the power, that fills the world with terror, 9 Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There... | |
 | 1846 - 302 páginas
...with dreadful din, And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin ; The tumult of each sacked and burning village;...noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drowneet Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies 1 Were half the power,... | |
 | 1846 - 308 páginas
...blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, 0 in •.», with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments...Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarreHt the celestial harmonies '. Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half... | |
 | People's and Howitt's journal - 938 páginas
...to earth, ao many blinding, deafening sights and sounds to keep the eyes aiul thoughts from heaven! Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these Thou drowncdi nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jurat the celestial harmonies !• Bat look at the various... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 422 páginas
...the castle of San Juan de Ulloa, I could not but think of Longfellow's beautiful and truthful Unas. ' Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such...sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonics * Were half the power that fills the world with terror, ? Were half the wealth bestowed on... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1847 - 752 páginas
...the Castle of San Juan d'Ullio, I could not but think of LONGFELLOW'S beautiful and truthful lines : 'Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as theee, Thou drowoeet Nature's tweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? ' Were... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 170 páginas
...anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man, with such discordant noisea, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest...Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Where half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There... | |
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The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage ; The wail of famine in beleaguered towns ; The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, The rattling musketry, the clashing blade — And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade.... 
