 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!  Golden Leaves from the American Poets - Page 2781864 - 398 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...half tbe power that fllln the world with term. Were half the wealth, bestow'd on campi and court*, Given to redeem the human mind from error. There were no need of arflenala nor forUI The wBrnor's name would be a name abhorred I And every naUon Mi.it utiould hf!... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 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,...again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 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, Were half the wealth bestow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
 | Virginia De Forrest - Anthologies - 1860 - 368 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And j arrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for ever more the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing... | |
 | 1860 - 430 pages
...Florida ; better than if we had an army of a million Zouaves, and a fleet of armed Great Easterns. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts." u The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift again Its hand against... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 pages
...who rose up against tyranny, were themselves deeply tainted with the vices that tyranny engenders. " 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 abhorr'd, And every nation that should lift again Its... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 468 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,...courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error * The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift again Its hand against... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...she sleeps.1 1 Were half the power that fills the world with terroi, Were half the wealth, bestow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind...from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts I The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! THE POET'S MORNING. My morning haunts are, where they... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...banker. Those Christians best deserve the name, Who studiously make peace their aim. — Cowper. — 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... | |
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