Home
> Uncategorized > Felicia Hemans: Speak not of death, till thou hast looked on such
Felicia Hemans: Speak not of death, till thou hast looked on such
====
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
Felicia Hemans: Selections on peace and war
====
Felicia Hemans
From The Siege of Valencia: A Dramatic Poem
So, thou hast seen
Fields, where the combat’s roar hath died away
Into the whispering breeze, and where wild flowers
Bloom o’er forgotten graves! – But know’st thou aught
Of those, where sword from crossing sword strikes fire,
And leaders are borne down, and rushing steeds
Trample the life from out the mighty hearts
That ruled the storm so late? – Speak not of death,
Till thou hast looked on such.
Advertisements
Categories: Uncategorized
Comments (0)
Trackbacks (0)
Leave a comment
Trackback
Recent Posts
- Voltaire: The laws of robbers and war
- Voltaire: Why prefer a war to the happy labors of peace?
- Voltaire: Invoking the gods of war
- Robert Burton: Hypocrites who make the trumpet of the gospel the trumpet of war
- Robert Burton: War’s nuptials, war’s justice
- John Chrysostom: God is not a God of war and fighting
- Cyprian: War cannot consist with peace
- Democritus: Strange humor: Men covet war in time of peace
- Origen: Vanquish all demons who stir up war
- Robert Burton: We hate the hawk because it is always at war
- Robert Burton: What fury first brought so devilish, so brutish a thing as war into men’s minds?
- Anatole France: War ruins all trades but its own
- Edward Bulwer Lytton: Ghouls on the field of slaughter
- Walter Besant: Wisdom and war
- Romain Rolland: To Gandhi on mental unbalance leading whole world to destruction
- Romain Rolland: Tragedy of scientists at the disposal of military powers
- Rolland Rolland: Letters to Tagore on peace
- Romain Rolland: Mobilization of all the forces in the world for peace
- Romain Rolland: Letters on conscientious objection
- Romain Rolland: A little idealism to make the war booty more delectable
- Romain Rolland: Letter to Gandhi on confronting age of global wars
- Stefan Zweig: A single conscience defies the madness of war
- Romain Rolland: The intellectual drunkeness of war propaganda
- Stefan Zweig: Idea of human brotherhood buried by the grave-diggers of war
- Romain Rolland: Gandhi vs Einstein: War must be stopped before it starts
- Stefan Zweig: The whole world of feeling, the whole world of thought, became militarized
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: Peace, love and concord once shall rule again
- Romain Rolland: Civilized warfare allows victims choice of how to be slaughtered
- Stefan Zweig: War, the ultimate betrayal of the intellectuals
- Romain Rolland: Letter to Gandhi on total inadmissibility of war
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: The fatal trump of useless war to swell
- Stefan Zweig: Opposition to war, a higher heroism still
- Anthony Trollope: Leader appointed to save the empire – with warships
- Romain Rolland: Oh, fair diplomats, you rid us of irksome peace
- Stefan Zweig: Origin of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: Titled idiot kindles flames of war
- Romain Rolland: Tolstoy and peace among men
- Anthony Trollope: How wars are arranged
- Stefan Zweig: The army of the spirit, not the army of force
- Romain Rolland: Chorus of war’s secular high priests and intellectual carpet knights
- Stefan Zweig: Propaganda is as much war matériel as arms and planes
- Romain Rolland: The way to peace is not through weakness
- While the whole earth was at peace
- Stefan Zweig: I would never have believed such a crime on the part of humanity possible
- Francis Hutcheson: To poets, war is impetuous, cruel, undistinguishing monster
- Rabindranath Tagore: Secure disarmament, transform it into strength
- Romain Rolland: The equivocating sages of Armed Peace
- Stefan Zweig: The bloody cloud-bank of war will give way to a new dawn
- Stefan Zweig: “How much rottenness there is in war”
- Romain Rolland: Gandhi and the Satanic nature of war
- Rainer Maria Rilke: War is always a prison
- Stefan Zweig: The fruits of peace, the drive toward war
- Stefan Zweig: Selections on peace and war
- Stefan Zweig: The idealism which sees beyond blood-drenched battlefields
- Stefan Zweig: World war and Romain Rolland, the conscience of the world
- Stefan Zweig: Stendhal, in war but not of it
- Hugh Walpole: The dark, crippling advent of war
- Thomas Hardy: Ever consign all Lords of War to sleep
- Arnold Bennett: The Slaughterer
- Baruch Spinzoa: War corrupts civil society
- Baruch Spinoza: Men shouldn’t choose slavery in time of peace for better fortune in war
- War to end all wars: A century later
- Samuel von Pufendorf: Perverted animals wage wars for superfluities
- Baruch Spinoza: Peace is not mere absence of war
- Baruch Spinoza: Tyrants and war for its own sake
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Holy peace wherein men become angels
- Nicolas Malebranch: Ignorance, brutality and training for war
- Auguste Comte: Permanent warfare as foundation of retrograde system, incompatible with modern civilization
- August Wilhelm Schlegel: Aristophanes, tragedian of peace
- Jules Janin: War aborts orators and writers, bears soldiers
- Francis Bacon: Arts benefit man more than arms
- Julien Offray de La Mettrie: Wars are the plague of the human race
- Thomas Hobbes: Divine law is the fulfilling of peace
- Jules Janin: War needs blood and gold
- Herbert Spencer: No patriotism when it comes to wars of aggression
- Arthur Schopenhauer: Beasts of prey in the human race
- Joseph de Maistre: The soldier and the executioner
- Antoine Destutt de Tracy: War leads to despotism, despotism to war
- Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle: Planet blessed with love but decimated by war
- Jeremy Bentham: A Plan for an Universal and Perpetual Peace
- Denis Diderot: War is contest between beast and savage
- St. James: Where do the wars among you come from?
- Thomas Reid: State of nature versus state of war
- George Berkeley: Continuing dishonorable war is committing murder, rapine, sacrilege and violence
- David Hume: War’s double standards
- Jeremy Bentham: War is mischief upon the largest scale
- John Locke: State of war and state of nature are opposites
- Thomas More: Battles result from lust for fame and glory
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: The cause of peace is not the cause of cowardice
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence of civilization over barbarism
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: All history is the decline of war. Cannot peace be, as well as war?
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau on peace and war
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: War and despotism reinforce each other
- Nicolas de Condorcet: War, the most dreadful of all calamities, the most terrible of all crimes
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The advantages of peace
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: No such thing as a successful war
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac: Peace will not make good all the evils war has caused
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The scheme of founding a lasting peace is the most lofty ever conceived
- Giambattista Vico: Mars, the vilest of the gods
Blog Stats
- 1,941,059 hits
Advertisements