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 or forts; The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! Southern Literary Messenger - Página 3761856Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 páginas
...attractive of any in the poem, but which commend themselves by their intrinsic truth and moral force : " 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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 páginas
...mercy drowns ; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage ; The wail of famine in beleaguered towns ; The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder,...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... | |
| John Cumming - 1852 - 660 páginas
...dreary, When the death-angel touches those swift keys ! What Will mingle with their awful symphonies ! Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestow'd in camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 páginas
...mercy drowns ; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage ; The wail of famine in beleaguered towns ; The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder,...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... | |
| Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 páginas
...the clashing blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, Oh man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed...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... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 páginas
...give repose again? What shall charm the serpent furies, Coiled around the maddening brain? WE Aytoun. 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... | |
| 1853 - 442 páginas
...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, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of Arsenals... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 404 páginas
...dreary, When the death-angel touches those soft keys ! What Will mingle with their awful symphonies ! Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestow'd in camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 396 páginas
...dreary, When the death-angel touches those soft keys ! What . Will mingle with their awful symphonies ! Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestow'd in camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 410 páginas
...dreary, When the death-angel touches those soft keys ! What Will mingle with their awful symphonies ! Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestow'd in camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and... | |
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