 | 1842 - 612 pagine
...dreadful groan, Which, through the ages that have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own. The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder,...of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man! with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's... | |
 | International peace society - 232 pagine
...endless groan, Which, through the ages that have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own. The tumult of each sacked and burning village; The shout that every prayer for morcy drowns; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage; The wail of famine in beleaguered towns;... | |
 | 1869 - 406 pagine
...dead. To him must be assigned " the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony, the endless groan, The tumult of each sacked and burning village, The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns, The soldier's revels in the midst of carnage, The wail of famine in beleagered towns. The bursting shell,... | |
 | 1844 - 784 pagine
...dreadful din, And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin. The tumult of each sacked and burning village; The...of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, oh man, with such discordant noise?, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drown est Nature's... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pagine
...dreadful din, And Aztec priests, upon their teocallis, Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin. 5 The tumult of each sacked and burning village ; The...The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, 10 The rattling musketry, the clashing blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 440 pagine
...pillage, The wail of famine in beleaguered towns ! The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, 10 The rattling musketry, the clashing blade ; And ever...of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, 15 Thou drownest nature's... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pagine
...dreadful din, And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin ; The tumult of each sacked and burning village; The...of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, 0 in •.», with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pagine
...dreadful din, And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin ; The tumult of each sacked and burning village; The...of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drowneet Nature's... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1846 - 178 pagine
...dreadful din, And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin ; The tumult of each sacked and burning village ; The...of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's... | |
 | 1873 - 398 pagine
...dreadful din, And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin ; The tumult of each sacked and burning village ; The...revels in the midst of pillage ; The wail of famine in beleagured towns. The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, The rattling musketry, the clashing... | |
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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 clashing blade; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. 
