| 1839 - 742 pages
...bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord has need of these flowers gay," The Reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where He was once...find them all again In the fields of light above. Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day; Twas an Angel visited the green earth,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Digital images - 1839 - 174 pages
...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...that day ; 'T was an angel visited the green earth, And took the flowers away. THE LIGHT OF STARS. THE night is come, but not too soon ; And sinking silently,... | |
| Fashion - 1840 - 540 pages
...most did love ; But she knew she should find them all again, In the fields oflight above. vil. Vll. O, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day ; *T was an anirel visited the green earth, And took the flowers away. OFF CAPE HORN, OR DEATH AND BURIAL AT 8EA.... | |
| 1853 - 588 pages
...wear." And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowrets she most did love ; But she knew she could find them all again In the fields of light above....in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day ; 'Twas an angel visited the green earth, And took the flowers away. HENRY LONOFELLOW. REVIEW. INTRODUcTION... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 174 pages
...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...that day ; 'T was an angel visited the green earth, And took the flowers away. THE LIGHT OF STARS. THE night is come, but not too soon ; And sinking silently,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 278 pages
...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. 30 * '*>3) 234 DEMOCRACY. O, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day ; Twas an angel... | |
| Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...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. 0 not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day ! 'Twas an Angel visited the green earth,... | |
| John Keese - Bereavement - 1844 - 140 pages
...bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord hath need of the flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled: " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once...in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day : Twas an angel visited the green earth, THE DISEMBODIED SPIRIT. Wtf. 0. B. PEABODY. OH 1 sacred star... | |
| William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord has need of these flowers gay," The reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where He was once...find them all again In the fields of light above. 0, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The reaper came that day ; T was an angel visited the green earth,... | |
| Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 274 pages
...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...in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day ; 'Twas an angel visited the green earth, And took the flowers away. THE WEDDING WAKE, BY GEORGE DARLET.... | |
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