 | John Hullett - 1859 - 528 pages
...all, (thus she shewed the fruits of discipline.) And then one morning early the reaper came : — " There is a reaper, whose name is Death, And with his...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between." The edge of his scythe was rather blunt ; and jagged the tender plant with pain, and anguish, and sorrow,... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858 - 292 pages
...too much, But great ones not at all. THE EEAPEE AND THE FLOWEES. \VH LONOTELLOW.] [Jfimc by JW HoiES. 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... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - Children - 1858 - 262 pages
...Christ, hath ABOUNDED unto many." " But where sin abounded, GRACE DID MUCH MOKE ABOUND." THE REAPER. 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... | |
 | 1850 - 44 pages
...this world of sorrow and suffering. So happily he passed away, that we may say with the poet, " There is no death! what seems so, is transition; This life...of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death." In his entire character, he was well worthy of our imitation. Of a manly bearing, courteous and kind... | |
 | William Barclay - Religion - 1976 - 224 pages
...transition—not an end, but a stage on the way; not a door closing, but a door opening. Longfellow wrote: "There is no Death! What seems so is transition; This life...of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death." George Meredith wrote: "Death met I too, And saw the dawn glow through." To such death has always been... | |
 | Poetry - 1982 - 348 pages
...Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral 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... | |
 | Robert Davidson - Religion - 1983 - 188 pages
...reaper, a metaphor which has a long literary history and appears in several of Longfellow's poems: There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with...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,... | |
 | Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Central Pennsylvania - Lutheran Church - 1906 - 1064 pages
...died and rose again and that those who sleep in Jesus, God will bring with him. Alleluia ! " There is no death ! What seems so is transition. This life...suburb of the life elysian Whose portal we call death." Respectfully submitted, WDE SCOTT, C. LUTHER McCONNELL, MS CRESSMAN. The report was adopted by a rising... | |
 | Michael Wallis - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 532 pages
...wrapped in his overcoat and grief, read the inscriptions chiseled on the front of the mausoleum: "There is no death! What seems so is transition. This life...elysian whose portal we call death." — Longfellow "Some evening when the sky is gold I'll follow day into the west nor pause, nor heed, till I behold... | |
 | Paschal B. Randolph - 1996 - 274 pages
...AIMED BT EifANUEL SWEnESBOHO AVD OTUERS, THROCOU TUB MINDS OF FRANCES IL McDoucAtL AND LUNA '. ' There is no death ' what seems so is transition , This life...LIFE ELYSIAN, Whose portal we call death " Longfellow 'Osmg to me of Health" Dying Child New York DM BENNETT, 1878 Reprinted 1972 By Health Research PO Box... | |
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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. 
