 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 pages
...But He her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-eyed Peace ; She, crowned with olive-green, came softly sliding Down through the turning sphere, His ready...the amorous clouds dividing ; And waving wide her myrtle-wand, No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...he, her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-ey'd Peace ; She, crowu'd with olive green, came softly sliding Down through the turning sphere, His ready...With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing ; And, waring wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. No war or battle's... | |
 | Sara Coleridge - 1849 - 240 pages
...meek-ey'd Peace, She crown'd with Olive green, came foftly fliding Down through the turning fphear His ready Harbinger, With Turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing, And waving wide her mirtle wand, She ftrikes a univerfal Peace through Sea and Land. No War, or Battels found Was heard... | |
 | Christmas poetry - 1849 - 250 pages
...the meek-ey'd Peace, She crown'd with Olive green, came foftly Hiding Down through the turning fphear His ready Harbinger, With Turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing, And waving wide her mirtle wand, She ftrikes a univerfal Peace through Sea and Land. No War, or Battels found Was heard... | |
 | 1850 - 298 pages
...the world at the time of Christ's nativity is thus beautifully alluded to in Milton's Hymn : — " No war or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; Unstain'd with hostile blood The hooked chariot stood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng... | |
 | Bevelled edge boards (Binding) - 1851 - 216 pages
...He, her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-eyed Peace ; She, crowned with olive green, came softly sliding Down through the turning sphere, His ready...war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around : 07 The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot, stood Unstained with hostile... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...he, her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-ey'd Peace ; She, crown'd with olive green, came softly sliding Down through the turning sphere, His ready...a universal peace through sea and land. No war or battle sound, Was heard the world around: The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...there reigns a spirit of silence which is charmingly appropriate, and irresistibly impressive : — No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high uphung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed... | |
 | John Milton - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...in 1629, when he was in his twenty-first fear, probably as a eollege exereise. Mark this stansa: — No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high uphung ; The hooked ehariot stood Cnstain'd with human blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng... | |
 | Alfred Bate Richards - English essays - 1851 - 288 pages
...paramour." 209 Is not the following a noble verse ? Would it were true of these days ! — "No war, nor battle's sound Was heard the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high up-hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood, The trumpet spake not to the armed... | |
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But he her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-eyed Peace ; She, crowned with olive green, came softly sliding Down through the turning sphere, His ready harbinger, With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing: And, waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes... 
