 | Heavenly thoughts - 1851 - 318 pages
...servant ; I am thy 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...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 breath... | |
 | Ears - 1851 - 176 pages
...Death is the veil which those who live call life ; They sleep, and it is lifted. — SHELLRY. There is no Death ! what seems so is transition ; This life...elysian, Whose portal we call Death.— LONGFELLOW. It matters little at what honr o' the day The righteous fall asleep ; death cannot coma To him untimely... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...very consistent with the enjoyment of cvery_innocent pleasure." — Sturm. HOPE BEYOND THE GRAVE. 261 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... | |
 | Gems - 1851 - 206 pages
...pleasant, Cometh soon our Holiday. Work away! Dlckem's Household Words. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWER. 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...through the mists and vapours ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life...suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone unto that school Where she no longer... | |
 | Meta Lander - 1861 - 354 pages
...these earthly damps, What seem to us but dim, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! what seems so is transition ; This life...suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection— But gone unto that school, Where she no longer needs... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal taners, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death! What seems so is transition; This life...suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, the child of our affection, But gone unto that school Where she no longer needs our... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Christian martyrs - 1851 - 592 pages
...expressive language, he became " entirely well." He died December 8, 1691. 4. DR. DODDRIDGE. "There is no death: what seems so is transition; This life...a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death."—LONGFELLOW. PHILIP DODDRIDGE was born in London in the year 1702. His parents were both pious,... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Death - 1852 - 584 pages
...expressive language, he became " entirely well." He died December 8, 1691. 4. DR. DODDRIDGE. "There is no death : what seems so is transition ; This life...elysian, Whose portal we call death." — LONGFELLOW. PHILIP DODDRIDGE was born in London in the year 1702. His parents were both pious, and descendants... | |
 | American poetry - 1852 - 196 pages
...child's smile, From the mite to the mammoth, there's nothing in vain. anb tlje /Intro. 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... | |
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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. 
