 | Samuel Edward Winbolt - Hexameter - 1903 - 342 pages
...immortality.' Then didst thou grant mine asking with a smile, Like wealthy men who care not how they give. x. Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung, Majestic...silence ! then the harp awoke, The cymbal clang'd. XI. Mothers then for fear Their vows redouble : more close on peril treads Panic, and larger looms... | |
 | Poetry of places - 1905 - 274 pages
...palace, then in awful state The temple reared its everlasting gate ; No workman's steel, no ponderous axes rung! Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric...Majestic silence! — then the harp awoke, The .cymbal clanged, the deep-voiced trumpet spoke; And Salem spread her suppliant arms abroad, Viewed the descending... | |
 | 1906 - 520 pages
...Parian stone ; Yet here Fair Science nursed her infant fire, Fann'd by the artist aid of friendly Tyre. Then tower'd the Palace, then in awful state The Temple...rear'd its everlasting gate. No workman steel, no ponderous axes rung ; Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung. Majestic silence ! — then... | |
 | Henry Morris - Biography - 1908 - 266 pages
...perhaps, the most impressive passage in the poem. They are as follows : " No workman steel, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung. Majestic silence ! "* Heber's father died in February, 1804. He had the satisfaction of listening to his son's public... | |
 | George Alexander Kohut - Bible - 1913 - 730 pages
...in awful state The Temple reared its everlasting gate.2 No workman's steel, no ponderous axes rung,8 Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung. Majestic silence !— then the harp awoke, The cymbal clanged, the deep-voiced trumpet spoke ; And Salem spread her suppliant arms abroad. Viewed the descending... | |
 | Edward George Lowry - Statesmen - 1921 - 344 pages
...thence south through the entree to the ice. And all in perfect silence. No hammer fell, no ponderous axes rung; Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung. Majestic silence! But I must say it is hard on the ladies. They often talk about it. They are supposed to make him have... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1878 - 578 pages
...x. 263.) — In my copy of Heber's Poems, edition of 1812, the lines in question run, ;hus : — " No workman steel, no pond'rous axes rung; Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung.'' CH MAYO. Long Burton, Sherborne. BREECH-LOADERS (5th S. x. 65.)— If the Parliamentary Captain Cannon... | |
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Science nurs'd her infant fire, Fann'd by the artist aid of friendly Tyre. Then tower'd the palace, then in awful state The Temple rear'd its everlasting gate. No workman steel, no pond'rous axes rung ; —— Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric... 
