 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
 | Albert Deane Richardson - United States - 1865 - 556 pages
...hidden by great piles of brush. Already we count eighteen ; the cannonading will unmask many more. "Ah, what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the Death-angel touches these swift keys I What loud lament and dismal miserere Will'mingle with their awful symphonies I"... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...laid aside, If I but remember oiily Such as these have lived and died ! THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD. 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 villagers with strange... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - History - 1866 - 550 pages
...unmask many more. "Ah, what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the Death-angel touches these swift keys ! What loud lament and dismal miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies!" • In front of our right batteries, but far below and hid.dea from them, the antique, narrow, half-ruined... | |
 | Henry Martyn Burt - History - 1867 - 294 pages
...be read with renewed interest by every one who has been at the Arsenal: THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD. This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a...the villages with strange alarms. Ah ! what a sound wSl rise—how wild and dreary— "When the death-angel touches those swift keys ! What loud lament... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...Faith, some day, will all in love be shown. L.—THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD. HENRY' w. LONGFELLOW. 1. This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a...their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the villagers with strange alarms. 2. Ah, what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the Death-Angel... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 372 pages
...Faith, some day, will all in love be shown. L.— THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. 1. This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a...their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the villagers with strange alarms. 2. Ah, what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the Death-... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1867 - 482 pages
...toll there is fire, and when I ring there is victory in the land." THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD. Tins is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge...their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the village with strange alarms. Ah! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the death-angel... | |
 | 1875 - 652 pages
...distinguished Peace advocate in the House of Commons during a debate on the Army Estimates : — " This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a...the burnished arms ; But from their silent pipes no authem pealing Startles the villages with strange alarms. " Ah, what a sound will rise — how wild... | |
 | Acrostics - 1867 - 302 pages
...by, Falls on his silken bed ; The queen and all her dames draw nigh, He turns away' his head." 7. '' Ah, what a sound will rise ! how wild and dreary When the death-angel touches those swift keys ! " 8. " Fast before her father's men Three days we've fled together." 9. " Do not yet the great Scalds... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 374 pages
...arms ; But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the villagers with strange alarms. 2. 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... | |
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