 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
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 páginas
...as these, 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 the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
 | John Cumming - 1863 - 340 páginas
...beneficence, and charity, and self-sacrifice. The poet has sung with some exaggeration a great truth:— " 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... | |
 | William Kidd - 1863 - 76 páginas
...BBITISH SONG-BIBDS ;" ETC., AND EDITOB OF "KIDD'S JOUBNAL AND BOOK OF NATUBE." TWENTY-SIXTH THOUSAND. " Were half the power that fills the World with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Giv*n to redeem the humau mind from Error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 464 páginas
...blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. VOL. I. 16 Is it, () man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed...fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, (liven to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
 | Viator - 1864 - 302 páginas
...there could hardly be any use in such constant forging of implements of war in this civilized land. " 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... | |
 | 1864 - 428 páginas
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies i 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... | |
 | 1862 - 542 páginas
...and the fierce shonts of angry hosts, may hear once more " Nature's sweet and kindly voices." Ah! " Were half the power that fills the world with terror — Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and court*. (iiven to redeem the human mind from Error, There we»e no need of arsenals... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 páginas
...mercy drowns ; The soldier's revels in the undst 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 for arsenals... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 páginas
...the clashing blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, 0 man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed...fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bostow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
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