 | 1842 - 612 pages
...dreadful groan, Which, through the ages that have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own. The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder,...in tones 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 pages
...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; The bursting shell, the gateway wrench'd asunder, The rattling musketry, the clashing blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of tbuuder,... | |
 | 1869 - 406 pages
...prayer for mercy drowns, The soldier's revels in the midst of carnage, The wail of famine in beleagered towns. The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder,...tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade." Far be it from me to rejoice in hie downfall, or to withhold the slightest commiseration from him in... | |
 | 1844 - 784 pages
...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...in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, oh man, with such discordant noise?, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drown est... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...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...The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, 10 The rattling musketry, the clashing blade; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...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...in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, 0 in •.», with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 178 pages
...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...in tones 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... | |
 | Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...each sacked and burning village, The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns, The soldier's revels in the midst of pillage, The wail of famine in beleaguered...in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. It is, O man, with such discordant noises — With such accursed instruments as these — Thou drownest... | |
 | Arbitration (International law) - 1873 - 398 pages
...for mercy drowns ; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage ; The wail of famine in beleagured towns. The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder,...tones of thunder, , The diapason of the cannonade ! Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...more to see the vanquish'd yield. Richmond Republican. 41. The bursting shell, the gateway wrench'd asunder, The rattling musketry, the clashing blade...in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. BEAST. — (See ANIMAL). BEAUTY. 1. The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observ'd of all... | |
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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. 
