 | England - 1856 - 838 pages
...battle's flags were furled, In the parliament of man, the federation of the world, There the common cause of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the...kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law." And what is to be this universal law, according to the Age, if not to the poet's meaning? Love? Honour?... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind...With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battleflags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the... | |
 | 1842 - 788 pages
...nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south- wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm.' —vol. ii. pp. 103, 104. ' Lady Clare' is not memorable ; but the ' Lord of Burleigh' well deserves... | |
 | Criticism - 1865 - 836 pages
...Peoples"— " Till the war-drum throbs no longer, and the battle flags are furled, In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common...kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law." Such the nation, such the destiny that we may realize, if at this crisis of our history we have a Congress... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the southwind...rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd In... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 254 pages
...shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind...With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battleflags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 pages
...world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags...were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. 1 There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth... | |
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From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunderstorm; Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags... 
