 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...quell ? Whatpassion cannot Music raise and quell ? The trumpet's loud clangour Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger, And mortal alarms, The...discovers The woes of hopeless lovers, Whose dirge is whispered by the warbling lute. Sharp violins proclaim Their jealous pangs, and desperation, Fury,... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell ? The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, ; And sometimes comes she with a tithe-pig's tail,...Tickling a parson's nose as 'a lies asleep, Then dreams Ч is too late to retreat. The soft complaining flute In dying notes discovers The woes of hopeless... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - Readers - 1872 - 432 pages
...trumpets ; some are sweet as children's talk ; others rich as a mother's answering back. 2. A DRUM. The double, double, double beat Of the thundering...foes come : Charge, charge! 'tis too late to retreat. 3. WAR AND PEACE. The bra/.en throat of war had ceased to roar, All now was turned to jollity and game.... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Music - 1872 - 348 pages
...Dryden is not careful to favour any such superstition : " The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger And mortal alarms, The double double double beat Of the thundering drum," etc. we have seen him fain to keep asunder : " Sneereth* the trumpet, and stampeth the drum." In his... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell? 3. The trumpets loud clangor 2c, Excites us to arms With shrill notes of anger And mortal alarms. The double double double beat Of the thundering drum -o Cries, heark : the foes come ! Charge, charge, 'tis too late to retreat ! 4The soft complaining... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - Readers - 1872 - 418 pages
...trumpets ; some are sweet as children's talk ; others rich as a mother's answering back. 2. A DRUM. The double, double, double beat Of the thundering drum Cries, Hark ! the foes come : Charge, charge ! 't is too late to retreat. 3. WAR AND PEACE. The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar, All now... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell ? The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, dram Cries, hark ! the foes come ; Charge, charge, Ч is too late to retreat. The soft complaining... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pages
...well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell ? 3 The trumpet's loud clangour Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger, And mortal alarms. The...come ; Charge, charge ! 'tis too late to retreat. 4 The soft complaining flute In dying notes discovers The woes of hopeless lovers, Whose dirge is whisper'd... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...so well. What passion cannot music raise and quell? The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms. With shrill notes of anger And mortal alarms. The...drum Cries, " Hark ! the foes come ; Charge, charge, 't is too late to retreat ! " The soft complaining flute In dying notes discovers The woes of hopeless... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...so well. What passion cannot music raise and quell ? The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, too retreat. The soft complaining flute In dying notes discovers The woes of hopeless lovers, Whose... | |
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Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell? 
