 | 1906 - 1232 pagina’s
...Longfellow's famous poem. The most powerful stanza in that great poem is certainly this : "Were hall the power that fills the world with terror, Were half...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts." The same thought was expressed by our most influential educational reformer of the last... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 pagina’s
...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,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! And every nation, that should... | |
 | 1879 - 1036 pagina’s
...on camps and courts, Gi»en to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred,...hand against a brother, on its forehead Should wear forevermore the curse of Cain ! " Jonson wrote some lines about his first daughter, who died in infancy.... | |
 | Joshua Priestley - 1870 - 332 pagina’s
...content to reason with Longfellow : 'Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were halt the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to...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... | |
 | 1871 - 476 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Osborn (schoolmaster) - 1871 - 114 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1871 - 360 pagina’s
...this Psalm of Peace may relieve the detail of statistics, while they happily blend with my argument. " 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... | |
 | 1871 - 692 pagina’s
...Christianity practically denied — on which side stands the balance ? Were it rightly estimated, " The warrior's name would be a name abhorred. And every...again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Caia." DAVID A. WELLS. [I**MY HOUSEKEEPING IN ROME. AND so it... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1873 - 494 pagina’s
...shall meet the main ; But when together shall we meet Upon that far-off shore again ? GLAZIER. PEACE. Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts. Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease ; And... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 pagina’s
...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, bestowed on camps and courts, (jiven to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals nor forts : The warrior's... | |
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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! 
