 | 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... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...LONGFELLOW — Evangeline. Pt. II. V. 5 There is a Reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen, lie 뗐 ۈ 偀 LONGFELLOW — Reaper ami the Flowers. Compare ARNIM and BRENTANO — Ernltlieil, in Des Knaben Wurulerharn.... | |
 | William Valentine Kelley - 1922 - 358 pages
...him in flocks; but with this difference, that her magic spell spares neither sex nor age, but "mows the bearded grain at a breath and the flowers that grow between." Children of all ages from six to seventy follow in her train. In Chicago the street urchins are out... | |
 | Lillian Eichler Watson - Etiquette - 1924 - 912 pages
...superstitious notion that attributed death to a grim and unseen Reaper. He tells us: There is a Reaper whose name is Death And with his sickle keen He reaps...grain at a breath And the flowers that grow between. Among the ancients, death was the great Evil before which the strongest tribesman quailed. Our savage... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - American poetry - 1925 - 448 pages
...will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." 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 I have naught that is fair?" saith he; "Have naught but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 408 pages
...close tinder deepening snow. JAMFLS RUSSELL LOWELL. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. THEKF. is a Reaper whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He...breath, And the flowers that grow between. "Shall 1 have naught that is fair?" saith he ; " Have naught but the liearded grain ? Though the breath of... | |
 | Anna Maria Green Cook - Baldwin County (Ga.) - 1925 - 506 pages
...Lou T. Herty, wife of Capt. BR Herty, daughter of Capt. Isaac Holmes, deceased. "There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, An the flowers that grow between." How true in the sad death of Mrs. Herty! She was indeed, as a beautiful... | |
 | 1927 - 984 pages
...sense of filial obligation to her worthy parents ; until she also realized that, "There is a reaper whose name is Death And with his sickle keen, He reaps...grain at a breath. And the flowers that grow between. ' ' JACOB FLICKINGER-NANCY HALL II Jacob Flickinycr. b in Stone Valley, 1831, at four passed with his... | |
 | Regions beyond missionary union - 626 pages
...Mattoi . ib. France — Sagnol 173 America — Hutchinson and Bromley .... ib. " 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." LONGFELLOW. THE main object of our paper is, as its title... | |
 | American periodicals - 1860 - 856 pages
...HOPES AND FEARS. CHAPTER III. " There is a reaper — his nnme is Death, And with his sk'kle keen lie reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between." A LETTER from Humfrey ! how Honor's heart fluttered! Would it announce an engagement, or would it promise... | |
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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. 
