 | United States. 78th Cong., 2d sess., 1944. House, United States. Congress House - 1945 - 132 pages
...unknown — Eternity. Longfellow expresses the thought most beautifully in words There is a Reaper whose name Is Death, And with his sickle keen. He...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. [85] Neither youth nor age, poverty nor riches, the humble nor the great, the weak nor the strong,... | |
 | United States. 78th Cong., 2d sess., 1944. House, United States. Congress House - 1945 - 134 pages
...unknown — Eternity. Longfellow expresses the thought most beautifully in words There is a Reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen. He...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. [86] Neither youth nor age, poverty nor riches, the humble nor the great, the weak nor the strong,... | |
 | James Madison MacDonald - Heaven - 1856 - 316 pages
...is Death. "' Shall I have naught that is fair,' saith he; ' Have naught but the bearded grain? ' ' ' He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, ' And the flowers that grow between."1 • 0, it is a delightful thought, that the .blood of .Jesus Christ set them free from the... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1884 - 906 pages
...smiling, when suddenly the bitterness of disappointment fell upon us with its chilling shade. He who "reaps the bearded grain at a breath and the flowers that grow between " has come amongst us with his sharpened sickle. One of the brightest spirits with us at the beginning... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1879 - 372 pages
...numerous and varied ect tions of his poems are evidences of their popularity. 1. THERE is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. 2. "Shall I have naught that is fair?" saith he; "Have naught hut the bearded grain? Though the breath... | |
 | Robert Davidson - Religion - 1983 - 188 pages
...which has a long literary history and appears in several of Longfellow's poems: There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. The Reaper and the Flowers This grim reaper's harvest is the corpses which lie ungathered in the fields,... | |
 | Christine Quigley - Social Science - 1996 - 372 pages
...Wadsworth Longfellow (d. 1882) characterizes him as a reaper who cuts down the useful and the beautiful: "He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, / And the flowers that grow between." There are times, however, when Death is given a gentle personality. In a verse ascribed to Ann Boleyn... | |
 | L. M. Montgomery - Fiction - 1997 - 522 pages
...From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Reaper and the Flowers" (1839, Stanza 1): "There is a Reaper whose name is Death, / And with his sickle keen, /...bearded grain at a breath, / And the flowers that grown between." "Oh, Marilla," she said gravely. "I don't think — we can do anything for him." "Mrs.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...fireside, howsoe'er defended. But has one vacant chair! 6506 'The Reaper and the Flowers' There is a Reaper g P0 6507 'Santa Filomena' (on Florence Nightinj A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of... | |
 | Genealogy - 1899 - 1378 pages
...perpetuating her memory in this Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. "There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen, He...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between." MRS. CAROLINE F. KIMBALL, MRS. JENNIE D. RAYBURN, MRS. FRANCES C. FUNK. SUSAN MAC!NTIRE VINTON. —... | |
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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. 
