 The tumult of each sacked and burning village; The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage; The wail of famine in beleaguered towns; The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, The rattling musketry,...  The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems - Page 25by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1846 - 151 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American poetry - 1864 - 428 pages
...with dreadful din ; And Aztec priests upon tneir teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpents' skin ; The tumult of each sacked and burning village...kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies i Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 464 pages
...blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. VOL. I. 16 Is it, () man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed...half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, (liven to redeem the human mind from error, There... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 pages
...burning village ; The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns ; The soldier's revels in the undst of pillage ; The wail of famine in beleaguered towns...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...the clashing blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, 0 man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed...Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bostow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...the clashing blade; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, 0 man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed...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... | |
 | John Edwin Hilary Skinner - Schleswig-Holstein War, 1848-1850 - 1865 - 288 pages
...the clashing blade, And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. " Is it, 0 man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed...Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And j arrest the celestial harmonies?" LONGFELLOW. MOST countries, claiming to be civilised, have a code... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 710 pages
...musketry, the clashing blade; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. la it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such...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... | |
 | 1866 - 1016 pages
...mercy drowns, The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage, The wail of famine in beleaguered towns ; Is it, O man, with such discordant noises. With such...kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ?" THE happy day at last arrived for the Borisoffs Pravdines, when Valerian returned to B — sk, but... | |
 | Henry Martyn Burt - History - 1867 - 294 pages
...battle-bell with dreadful din, And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums npule of serpent's skin % The tumult of each sacked and...discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thq|i drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? "Were half the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1867 - 482 pages
...village; The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns ; The soldier's revels in the midst of pillage ; The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder,...these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, I And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were... | |
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