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" 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: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! "
A Hand-book of English Literature: Intended for the Use of High Schools, as ... - Page 263
by Francis Henry Underwood - 1889 - 608 pages
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany, Volume 5

1842 - 612 pages
...musketry, the clashing blade, And, ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man! with such discordant noises, With such...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...
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The Herald of peace. July 1850-Jan./March 1930. Oct. /Dec. 1938, Jan./April 1939

International peace society - 232 pages
...musketry, the clashing blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of tbuuder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man ! with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownost Nature's sweet arid kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? Were half the power...
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The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected ..., Volume 41

1872 - 1118 pages
...magnanimously forgiven. THE NAUTICAL MAGAZINE. NEW SERIES. DECEMBER, 1872. THE GENEVA ARBITRATION. Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals and forts.* THE passions of mankind are, perhaps, as fierce as ever they were, but they...
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Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and ..., Volumes 24-25

1844 - 784 pages
...Is it, oh man, with such discordant noise?, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drown est Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the...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...
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The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces ...

John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...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...
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The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces ...

John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 440 pages
...musketry, the clashing blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O 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...
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The True Grandeur of Nations: an Oration Delivered Before the Authorities of ...

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,...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...
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The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1846 - 178 pages
...musketry, the clashing blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such...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...
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Voices of the True-hearted

1846 - 308 pages
...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...
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Voices of the True-hearted

1846 - 302 pages
...musketry, the clashing blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man, with such discordant 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,...
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