 | Henry Harbaugh - Future life - 1853 - 410 pages
...pious — yet a little while, and we shall see them no more for ever ! 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... | |
 | Martha Noyes Williams - Suffering - 1853 - 290 pages
...undisturbed she may work on. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. 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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...he chafed it still, and could not lay it down. DICEE.NS. LESSON LXX THE REAPER AND THE FLOWEBS. 1. THERE is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. 2. " Shall I have naught that is fair? " saith he; " Have naught but the bearded grain 1 Though the... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...these eartbly damps, What seem to us but sad, 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... | |
 | Early dead - 1853 - 122 pages
...these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad, 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, 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... | |
 | Edwin Davies (D.D.) - Bereavement - 1854 - 156 pages
...all, has died on Calvary's cross to redeem them from perishing! CHAPTER II. GATHERED SPRING 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... | |
 | Mary Alicia Taylor - 1854 - 410 pages
...ready, when the merry group dispersed to join their mother and uncle in the dining-room. CHAPTER IX. " There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between." LADY HETHERINQTON had changed her intention of going, as she had proposed, that day to Summerfield,... | |
 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - Wensleydale (England) - 1854 - 366 pages
...to those many occasions of sin which, in maturer years, cause our weakness so frequently to fall. " 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 ? ' said he ; ' Have nought but the bearded grain ? Though the breath... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May bo 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... | |
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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. 
