| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1874 - 782 sayfa
...youthful manhood, while his father lay cold and still in the dust beneath him. " There is a reaper whose name is Death; And, with his sickle keen, He...grain at a breath. And the flowers that grow between." It was the "bearded grain" that had fallen now — cut down in one moment under the pleasant autumn... | |
| 1859 - 924 sayfa
...lady at Hiltonbury Holt. CHAPTER III. " There is a reaper, his name his Death, And with his fickle keen He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between." A LETTER from Humfrey ! how Honor's heart fluttered. Would it announce an engagement, or would it promife... | |
| Virginia De Forrest - 1860 - 368 sayfa
...bleed, So may such foes deserve the most remorseless deed! THE REAPER AND THE FLOWER. THERE is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He...nought but the bearded grain ? Though the breath of those flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again." He gazed on the flowers with tearful... | |
| Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland - 1912 - 614 sayfa
...plants only to be ruthlessly mown down. It is appropriate to quote the lines : — " There is a reaper whose name is death, And with his sickle keen, He...grain at a breath And the flowers that grow between." The sickle of the reaper takes upon itself many forms, but one of its most deadly, most awe-inspiring,... | |
| 1865 - 398 sayfa
...his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died" (2 Kings iv. 18—20). THERE is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He...that grow between. " Shall I have nought that is fair ? " said he ; " Have nought but the bearded grain ? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to... | |
| Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 526 sayfa
...of your conversation." THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS By HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THERE is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He...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 of these flowers... | |
| 1922 - 690 sayfa
...DARKLY-SHINING FACE" THE,FOURTH OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON PLANETARY HEALING By "APOLLONIUS" There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen He reaps...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. Not in cruelty, not in wrath, The reaper came that day ; An Angel visited the green earth And took... | |
| Charles H. Sylvester - 1922 - 540 sayfa
...comments. Something like the following might be the way he brings out the meaning: " ' There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.' "A Reaper — a man walking in the grain, cutting it as he goes. Not with a machine such as we see... | |
| Longfellow - 1922 - 722 sayfa
...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. “Shall I have naught that is fair?” saith he; Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again.” “Have naught but the bearded grain? He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1922 - 910 sayfa
...still pursuing. Learn to labor and to wait. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS THEKE is a Reaper, whose nann is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, 'Shall I have naught that is fair?' saitb he; 'Have naught but the bearded grain? Though the breath... | |
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