 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 170 pages
...voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies; Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Where half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given...of arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be aname abhorred! And every nation, that should lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pages
...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...human mind from error, There were no need of Arsenals and forts. V The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation that should lift again... | |
 | 1853 - 442 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...she sleeps.1 1 Were half the power that fills the world with torroi, Were half the wealth, bestow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind...forts! The warrior's name would be a name abhorred I And every nation that should lift Rjraln IU hand against its brother, on Its forehead THE POET'S... | |
 | 1854 - 594 pages
...proclaim iu the ears of all the people — " Were half the power that fills tho world with terrorWere half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given...human mind from error. There were no need of arsenals or forts." And bad as things now appear, we may bclievingly hope that the time is rapidly approaching,... | |
 | James Booth - 1856 - 212 pages
...remember that the march of civilization has more than once been stayed and turned back. They know, " Were half the power, that fills the world with terror,...error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts." Let us, too, humbly hope that we shall not be fated to afford another verification of the maxim of... | |
 | Sir James Edward Alexander - 1857 - 356 pages
...musketry, the clashing blade, And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Were half the power that fills the world with terror—...bestowed on camps and courts— Given to redeem the mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts." On the 7th of September the weather was... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...blindness, Melting all spirits earthly into one, And leaving holiness and joy — 'TIS KINDNESS. DK LEE. Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...no need of arsenals nor forts. The warrior's name by all would be abhorred ! And every nation that should lift again Its hand against a brother, on its... | |
 | Joshua Priestley - 1859 - 334 pages
...Leaving the subject until ' the day shall declare it,' I felt content to reason with Longfellow : ' Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ; And every nation that should lift again Its... | |
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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 or forts! 
