 | Children - 1858 - 298 pages
...calm and deep, Lying on her mother's bosom, Little Bessie fell asleep. anfc t|e flutoeo. LOXOrELLOW. THERE is a Reaper whose name is Death, And with his...breath, And the flowers that grow between. "Shall I have nought that is fair?" saith he, " Have nought but the bearded grain ? Though the breath of these flowers... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858 - 292 pages
...too much, But great ones not at all. THE EEAPEE AND THE FLOWEES. \VH LONOTELLOW.] [Jfimc by JW HoiES. There is a reaper whose name is Death, And, with his...And the flowers that grow between. " Shall I have nought that is fair?" saith he — " Have nought but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - Children - 1858 - 262 pages
...Christ, hath ABOUNDED unto many." " But where sin abounded, GRACE DID MUCH MOKE ABOUND." THE REAPER. THERE is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with...And the flowers that grow between. " Shall I have nought that is fair," saith he ; " Have nought but the bearded grain ? Though the breath of these flowers... | |
 | 1858 - 460 pages
...witness thy dying, In the arms of Hellvellyn and Catchedicam. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. — Longfellow. THERE is a reaper, whose name is Death, And, with...And the flowers that grow between. " Shall I have nought that is fair ? " saith he ; " Have nought but the bearded grain ? Though the breath of these... | |
 | 1865 - 398 pages
...and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died" (2 Kings iv. 18—20). THERE is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with...And the flowers that grow between. " Shall I have nought that is fair ? " said he ; " Have nought but the bearded grain ? Though the breath of these... | |
 | Theosophy - 1922 - 690 pages
...OF THE DARKLY-SHINING FACE" THE,FOURTH OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON PLANETARY HEALING By "APOLLONIUS" There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. Not in cruelty, not in wrath, The reaper came that day ; An Angel visited the green earth And took... | |
 | Charles H. Sylvester - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1922 - 540 pages
...kindly in his comments. Something like the following might be the way he brings out the meaning: " ' There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.' "A Reaper — a man walking in the grain, cutting it as he goes. Not with a machine such as we see... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1922 - 910 pages
...still pursuing. Learn to labor and to wait. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS THEKE is a Reaper, whose nann is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, 'Shall I have naught that is fair?' saitb he; 'Have naught but the bearded grain? Though the breath... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever. LONGFELLOW — Evangeline. Pt. II. V. 5 w ᎀ O 0 ⁀ lie reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. LONGFELLOW — Reaper ami... | |
 | Elmer James Bailey - American poetry - 1922 - 282 pages
...more vividly, now as the Driver of the ploughshare in whose furrow we are sown; now as the Reaper who reaps the bearded grain at a breath and the flowers that grow between; and now as the Angel of the amaranthine wreath, descending to whisper with a breath divine the summons... | |
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I have nought that is fair?" saith he; "Have nought but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again." He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the... 
