 The Reaper said, and smiled ; "Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. "They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.  The Bombay Quarterly Review - Page 1001857Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 350 pages
...wear." And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light above. Oh, not...in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day ; 'T was an angel visited the green earth, And took the flowers away. THE LIGHT OF STARS. " This poem... | |
 | C. E. Alexander - Religious poetry, English - 1886 - 346 pages
...light, Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear." And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light above. O, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...light, Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear." And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light above. O, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came... | |
 | Funeral service - 1886 - 302 pages
...light, Transplanted by my care, And saints upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear." And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light above. Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1887 - 360 pages
...care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear." And the mother gave, in tiara and pain, The flowers she most did love She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light above. O, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came... | |
 | Readers - 1888 - 432 pages
...Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear." 6. And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she could find them all again In the fields of light above. 7. Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - Readers - 1888 - 436 pages
...Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear." 6. And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love; She knew she could find them all again In the fields of light above. 7. Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1889 - 264 pages
...light, Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear." And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again O, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day, — 'Twas an angel visited... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy, James Riddell, George William Clark - English poetry - 1890 - 530 pages
...light, transplanted by my care, and saints, upon their garments white, these sacred blossoms wear." and the mother gave, in tears and pain, the flowers she most did love ; she knew she should find them all again in the fields of light above. oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath, the Reaper came... | |
 | John Hendricks Bechtel - Readers - 1892 - 218 pages
...light, Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear." And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light above. O, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came... | |
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