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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: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! "
Poems - Page 209
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 764 pages
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Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith: Being Selections of Hymns and Other ...

Alfred Porter Putnam - Hymn writers - 1875 - 590 pages
...is the place where human harvests grow ! THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD. The last four stanzas. ~V\7"ERE half the power that fills the world with terror, Were...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals orforts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift again Its...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...With such accursed 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...
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Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association ..., Volume 5

Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1876 - 580 pages
...With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power that...terror, — Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and sports, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. Down the...
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Proceedings of the Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume 25

Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass - Massachusetts - 1912 - 356 pages
...the colossal images of ancient Babylon or modern Hindostan are but toys." Or this from Longfellow: "Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts." Or this from Tennyson: — ' ' Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flag...
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A dictionary of poetical illustrations

Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...noises, With such accursed instrument« as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And bestowM on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals...
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Chicago Schools Journal, Volumes 7-8

Education - 1925 - 822 pages
...billion. Yet some people think our educational program is expensive. Is it? In the language of a poet: "Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...on camps and courts Given to redeem the human mind of error, There were no need of arsenals and forts." * * * There are at present forty-eight vacant...
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Primary Education, Volume 28

Education - 1920 - 658 pages
...Americanization of all these future citizens of our country. This quotation from Longfellow is indeed true: Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. All the time and effort will be worth while if in future years they are all able to say,...
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Education for Economic Security Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities - Computer science - 1983 - 796 pages
...they were written when the Arsenal at Springfield was dedicated by Longfellow. And he said that— Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts given to relieve the human mind from error, there were no need for arsenals. I offer you your kind of education....
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Education for Economic Security Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities - Computer science - 1983 - 828 pages
...they were written when the Arsenal at Springfield was dedicated by Longfellow. And he said that — Were half the power that fills the world with terror, were half the wealth bestowed on campe and courts given to relieve the human mind from error, there were no need for arsenals. I offer...
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Canadian Pharmaceutical Journal, Volume 32

Pharmacology - 1899 - 740 pages
...to save her from dying was Kay's Essence of Linseed. — Chemist & Druggist. WHAT LONGFELLOW WROTE. Were half the power, that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts : Th-' warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift again...
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