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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. "
A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets - Page 129
by Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 715 pages
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The way home [by M.F. Barbour].

Margaret Fraser Barbour - Children - 1856 - 406 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 into that school, Where she no longer needs...
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The Lover's Seat. Kathemérina Or Common Things in Relation to ..., Volume 2

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 368 pages
...know besides, it is but giving Over of a game that must be lost." Besides, as the poet thinks, " There is no Death ! what seems so is transition. This life...of the life Elysian, Whose Portal we call Death." Pindar says, " Sweet is both the end and the commencement of human affairs made when there is a divine...
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Songs of the soul, derived from the writings of British, continental, and ...

Songs - 1856 - 712 pages
...or conceal' d, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark. JOHN MILTON. iLort fjatfj Neetr of tfjese is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle...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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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 pages
...these earthly damps; What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May l>e heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life...but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we (tall Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone unto that school Where she...
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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical Reading, with ...

William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...by themselves, in the raging thunder. CXXVIII. — THE KEAPEB AND THE FLOWERS. FROM LONGFELLOW. 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 ? Though the...
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Pen and Pencil Pictures

Tom Hood - Fore-edge painting - 1857 - 406 pages
...OLD MAN. follow her. And then we shall meet to part no more ! CONCLUSION. BY FANNY CALROW. " There is no death ! — what seems so is transition ; This...elysian, Whose portal we call death." LONGFELLOW. 0 part no more"— they have met now to part no more. Yesterday morning my dear, kind uncle (we always...
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The Early Called: a Gift for Bereaved Parents

Rev. William Henry Lewis - Suffering - 1857 - 100 pages
...we lived and were the instruments of rendering their existence blessed. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERa 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...
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S. John's in the Wilderness, studies of a country parish

St. John's in the Wilderness - 1857 - 166 pages
...He should touch them." " And He took them up in His arms, put His hands on them, and blessed them." 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...
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The Harp and the Cross: A Collection of Religious Poetry

Religious poetry, American - 1857 - 372 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...
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The Shadow on the Hearth: Or Our Father's Voice in Taking Away Our Little Ones

Children - 1858 - 298 pages
...calm and deep, Lying on her mother's bosom, Little Bessie fell asleep. anfc t|e flutoeo. LOXOrELLOW. 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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