 THIS is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms ; But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the villages with strange alarms. Ah ! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the death-angel touches...  Poems - Page 23by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 612 pages
...pit, and Dr. Achilli is now safe and well in London. To God be all the glory. POETRY. THE ARSENAL. "This is the arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like...What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with the awful symphonies ! I hear e'en now the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony, the dreadful... | |
 | International peace society - 232 pages
...bad bless'd; And, lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest." LEIGH HUNT. THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD. THIS is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a...their silent pipes, no anthem pealing, Startles the Tillages with strange alarms. All ! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the death- angel... | |
 | 1844 - 784 pages
...tranquillity, and have met together in a firme and indissoluble league of meet safe concord. ARNOBIUS. Ття is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge...what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When llie Death-Angel touches those swift keys 1 What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with their... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...arms ; But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the villagers with strange alarms. 5 Ah ! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary,...symphonies ! I hear, even now, the infinite fierce chorus, 10 The cries of agony, the endless groan, — Which, through the ages that have gone before us, In... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...round each bold Athenian's blade. LESSON CXXXVI. - THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD,— HW LONGFELLOW. . t This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling Like a...their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the villagers with strange alarms. 5 Ah ! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the Death-... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...arms ; But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the villagers with strange alarms. 6 Ah ! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the Death- Angel touches those swift keys ! What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with their... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...love I meet As o'er the earth it wanders wide, THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD. BT Hi. MM W. LOSOFELLOW. This) is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like...strange alarms. Ah ! what a sound will rise, how wild aod dreary, When the death-angel touches those swift keys ! What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...meet As o'er the earth it wanders wide, THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD. BT II1. Mi, W. l.OVI.M IIOW. ThU is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge...the burnished arms ; But from their silent pipes no anlhem pealing Startles the villages with strange alarms. Ah ! what a sound will rise, how wild and... | |
 | Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...you send over here to prepare to educate your own children ! woims or THE WISE. THE ARSENAL. TffTS is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge...Startles the villages with strange alarms. Ah ! what я sound will rise ; how wild and dreary, When the Death angel touches those swift keys! What loud... | |
 | Literature - 1856 - 604 pages
...speak of war without bringing in music oos thoughts. Even a great poet cannot to illustrate it: — "This is the arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like...pealing, Startles the villages with strange alarms. Ah 1 what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the Death-angel touches those swift keys ; What... | |
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