 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
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 396 pages
...beautiful words of an American poet, written when he looked at an arsenal, with arms piled to the roof — "This is the arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge organ, rise the burnish'd arms ; But from their silent pipes, no anthem pealing, Startles the villages with strange... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 410 pages
...words of an American poet, written when he looked at an arsenal, with arms piled to the roof — " This is the arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge organ, rise the burnish'd arms ; But from their silent pipes, no anthem pealing, Startles the villages with strange... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 404 pages
...beautiful words of an American poet, written when he looked at an arsenal, with arms piled to the roof — "This is the arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge organ, rise the burnish'd arms ; But from their silent pipes, no anthem pealing, Startles the villages with strange... | |
 | 1883 - 846 pages
...is struck by the truth of Longfellow's simile in his verses on the Springfield Arsenal, where too, From floor to ceiling, Like a huge organ rise the burnished arms. Or rather a hundred huge organs marshalled in close avenues, waiting for our soldiers' hands to draw... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pages
...concealed Behind some cloud that near us hangs, Shines on a distant field. THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD. THIS is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a...dismal Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies ! 1 hear even now the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony, the endless groan, Which, through... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 pages
...ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD. THIS is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge organ, rise the bumish'd arms; But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing,...the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony, the ciúticas groan, Which, through the ages that have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 472 pages
...concealed Behind some cloud that near us hangs, Shines on a distant field. THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD. THIS is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a...When the death-angel touches those swift keys ! What lo'^d lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies ! I hear even now the infinite... | |
 | William Byrne (of Cheltenham.) - 1855 - 120 pages
...Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed on the face of the foe as he pass'd."—BYB.ON. " Ah ! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the Death-Angel touches those swift keys."—LONGFELLOW. " Two Angels, one of Life, and one of Death, Pass'd o'er the city as the morning... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 432 pages
...concealed Behind some cloud that near us hangs, Shines on a distant field. THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD. THIS is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a...dismal Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies ! 184 THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD. I hear even now the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony, the... | |
 | D. W. Clark - 1856 - 450 pages
...not speak of war — in itself not very musical — without bringing in music to illustrate it : " This is the arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a...What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with the awful symphonies! I heir e'en BOW the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony, the dreadful... | |
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