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! The Railway Conductor - Page 3181905Full view - About this book
| 1842 - 612 pages
...the power that fills the world with terror, — Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and sports, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter, and then cease; And... | |
| 1844 - 784 pages
...half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and court?, 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 ! And ever)' nation that should lift again Its... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1845 - 108 pages
...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,...from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation that should lift again Its hand against... | |
| 1846 - 302 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drowneet Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies 1 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 ! And every nation, that should lift again... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1846 - 178 pages
...voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, 9 Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts,...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... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1846 - 112 pages
...moral force :— 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 and forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! And every nation that should lift again Its hand against... | |
| John Frost - 1847 - 414 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,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts. The following incidents concerning the battle of Sierra Gordoare taken from the New Orleans... | |
| Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...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...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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