 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 174 pages
...any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. THERE is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. " Shall I have nought that is fair ? " saith he ; " Have nought but the bearded grain ? Though the... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 274 pages
...flowers, wreathed by infant hands, Rested upon the stone." THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS, BY HW LONGFELLOW. There is a Reaper whose name is Death, And with his...grain at a 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... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...following lines, it becomes an Allegory. The author is PROFESSOR LONGFELLOW, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. " Shall I have nought that is fair to see ; Have nought but the bearded grain ? Though the breath of... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Ballads, English - 1844 - 188 pages
...from clay, Be God the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away ! WALTER SCOTT. THERE is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with...grain at a 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... | |
 | 322 pages
...Thomas Hood, are in some parts very beautiful. Our readers will thank us for two brief extracts. ' There is no death ! — what seems so is transition ; This...elysian, Whose portal we call death.'— LONGFELLOW. ' " To part no more " — they home met now to part no more. 'Yesterday morning my dear, kind unele... | |
 | 1844 - 298 pages
...Shining no where but in the dark, What myiieries do lie Iwyond th; dujl, Could we outlook thai murk!" THERE is a Reaper whose name is Death, And with his...grain at a 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... | |
 | 1846 - 436 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...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. " Shall I have naught that is fair ? " saith he ; " Have naught but the bearded grain ? Though the... | |
 | 1847 - 490 pages
...submissively, and willingly, when he requires it at your hands, give to God what God has given to you : " There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. " ' Shall I have nought that is fair!' saith he ; 1 Have nought but the bearded grain ? Though the... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...correspondent must have had in mind the stanza of Longfellow's " Resignation," which reads, — " There is no death : what seems so is transition ; This life...of the life Elysian, Whose portal we call death." — " J. О. Я." Botlnn, writes : " Will you kindly inform me, if possible, through the columns of... | |
 | Bereavement - 1848 - 154 pages
...own sanctuary — There is the infant's home ! FROM THE SACRED OFFERING. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. THERE is a Reaper whose name is Death, And with his...grain at a 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... | |
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There is no death ! What seems so is transition : This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. 
