 From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum, throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags...  Poems - Page 105by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Johannes Scherr - Literature - 1880 - 894 pages
...nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire.t ') »Till the war-drum throbh'd no longer and the battle-flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world . . . Men, rny brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they... | |
 | Nancy Anisfield - History - 1991 - 220 pages
...blue... The horrors of this scientific warfare bring about universal peace and world government: .. .the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags...were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. Now it is July 1945. The Missourian, on his way to a historic conference, believes that... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...119-126) 76 Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battleflags were furled In the Parliament (1. 1—2) Lear Levertov DON L. LEE (HAKI R. MADHUBUTI) (b. 1942) Assassination 1 they came running, lapped in universal law. (1. 127-130) 77 Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs.... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue; Till the war-drums throbb'd, no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd...kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, "Locksley Hall," verses 60-65, The Poetical Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson,... | |
 | David Jablonsky - United States - 1993 - 128 pages
...Tennyson in "Locksley Hall," 150 years ago: Till the war-drums throbb'd no longer, and the battle flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation...And the kindly earth shall slumber lapt in universal law.195 The concept of a great power concert has no such Utopian image. Instead, it provides a "realistic"... | |
 | Ferdinand Mount - History - 1993 - 354 pages
...silenced "in the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world." In that new order, he predicted, the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe. No part of the whole audacious vision is more striking than this sober estimate of the new order. No... | |
 | William Gerber - Life - 1994 - 312 pages
...Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) had a vision of a world at peace. In the vision, time passed (711) Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer. And the battle-flags were furl'd, In the Parliament of man, Satirizing those who pray to God for victory in battle, Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984), poet laureate,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1995 - 244 pages
...of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunderstorm; Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags...kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law, 130 So I triumph'd ere my passion sweeping thro' me left me dry, Left me with the palsied heart, and... | |
 | William Graham Scroggie - 1994 - 1460 pages
...the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be and went on to describe this Vision as, — the war-drum throbb'd no longer and the battle-flags...were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. (Locksley Hall). he too saw the possibility of a denationalized world, a time when there... | |
 | Andrew J. Butrica - Government publications - 1996 - 334 pages
...thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common...realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, In /tt in universal law. So I triumphed ere my passion sweeping through me left me dry, Left me with... | |
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