 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1874
...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
...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 - 348 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... | |
 | 1865
...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 H. Sylvester - 1922
...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... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922
...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1922 - 655 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... | |
 | Elmer James Bailey - 1922 - 258 sayfa
...more vividly, now as the Driver of the ploughshare in whose furrow we are sown; now as the Reaper who reaps the bearded grain at a breath and the flowers that grow between; and now as the Angel of the amaranthine wreath, descending to whisper with a breath divine the summons... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922
...LONGFELLOW — Evangeline. Pt. II. V. 5 There is a Reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen, lie 뗐 ۈ 偀 LONGFELLOW — Reaper ami the Flowers. Compare ARNIM and BRENTANO — Ernltlieil, in Des Knaben Wurulerharn.... | |
 | William Valentine Kelley - 1922 - 346 sayfa
...him in flocks; but with this difference, that her magic spell spares neither sex nor age, but "mows the bearded grain at a breath and the flowers that grow between." Children of all ages from six to seventy follow in her train. In Chicago the street urchins are out... | |
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THERE is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. 
