 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. THERE is a reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He...And the flowers that, grow between. " Shall I have naught that is fair ?" saith he ; "Have naught but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers... | |
 | 1850 - 560 pages
...the earnest desire of Your sincere friend, o YETTA. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen, He...breath, And the flowers that grow between. " Shall 1 have nought that is fair?" saith he; " Have nonght but the bearded grain ? Though the breath of these... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 384 pages
...some otherwise very fine lines which are spoiled by this obtrusive subjectiveness. " There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen, He...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. * * * * " He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves, It was for the... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 380 pages
...some otherwise very fine lines which are spoiled by this obtrusive subjectiveness. " There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen, He...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. * * * * " He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves, It was for the... | |
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1850 - 312 pages
...his head, and carrying his great coat upon his arm.' CHAPTER XII. There is a Reaper, whose name ia Death, And with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. LONGFELLOW. HE hastened to Portugal-street, in which quiet street Selwyn had lately taken up his residence.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. THERE is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He...that grow between. " Shall I have nought that is fair V ' saith he ; " Have nought but the bearded grain 1 Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to... | |
 | Primitive Baptists - 1851 - 526 pages
...was, byrepeated miracles of the same kind, continued. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. THESE is areaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He...And the flowers that grow between. " Shall I have naught that is fair ?" saith he ; • - Have naught but the bearded grain ? Though the breath of these... | |
 | Heavenly thoughts - 1851 - 318 pages
...servant, and the son of thine handmaid ; thou hast loosed my bonds." — Ps. cxvi. 16. There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen, He...And the flowers that grow between. " Shall I have naught that is fair ?" saith he ; " Have naught but the bearded grain ? Though the breath of these... | |
 | Gems - 1851 - 206 pages
...soon our Holiday. Work away! Dlckem's Household Words. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWER. There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He...And the flowers that grow between. " Shall I have naught that is fair? " saith he, " Have naught but the bearded grain ? " Though the breath of those... | |
 | Ann Jane - 1851 - 964 pages
...interesting periodical. THE REAPER AMONG THE HOUSEHOLDS. (Read at a Maternal Meeting.) " There is a Reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen He reaps the bearded grain at a hreath, And the flowers that grow between.'* . SINCE we last met as a maternal band, some of us have... | |
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THERE is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. 
