 I have naught that is fair ?" saith he ; "Have naught but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me I will give them all back again." He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 4801839Full view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1860 - 856 pages
...HOPES AND FEARS. CHAPTER III. " There is a reaper — his nnme is Death, And with his sk'kle keen lie 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 promise... | |
 | United States. 78th Cong., 2d sess., 1944. House, United States. Congress House - 1945 - 134 pages
...to the great unknown — Eternity. Longfellow expresses the thought most beautifully in words There is a Reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. [86] Neither youth nor age, poverty nor riches, the humble nor the great, the weak nor the strong,... | |
 | United States. 78th Cong., 2d sess., 1944. House, United States. Congress House - 1945 - 132 pages
...to the great unknown — Eternity. Longfellow expresses the thought most beautifully in words There is a Reaper whose name Is Death, And with his sickle...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. [85] Neither youth nor age, poverty nor riches, the humble nor the great, the weak nor the strong,... | |
 | United States. Congress House - Legislators - 1950 - 88 pages
...tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Mason] . Mr. MASON. Mr. Speaker, There la a Reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. This Grim Reaper has again appeared in our midst, somewhat startlingly, and has removed from among... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1884 - 906 pages
...smiling, when suddenly the bitterness of disappointment fell upon us with its chilling shade. He who "reaps the bearded grain at a breath and the flowers that grow between " has come amongst us with his sharpened sickle. One of the brightest spirits with us at the beginning... | |
 | 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 his sickle...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,... | |
 | William E. Phipps - Religion - 1987 - 232 pages
...nephew, who died at the full flowering of life. In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poignant words: There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. (The Reaper and the Flowers, lines 1-4) PREFACE Early this century HL Mencken commented in Smart Set,... | |
 | Christine Quigley - Social Science - 1996 - 372 pages
...Wadsworth Longfellow (d. 1882) characterizes him as a reaper who cuts down the useful and the beautiful: "He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, / And the flowers that grow between." There are times, however, when Death is given a gentle personality. In a verse ascribed to Ann Boleyn... | |
 | L. M. Montgomery - Fiction - 1997 - 522 pages
...consciousness. 1 . From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Reaper and the Flowers" (1839, Stanza 1): "There is a Reaper whose name is Death, / And with his sickle...bearded grain at a breath, / And the flowers that grown between." "Oh, Marilla," she said gravely. "I don't think — we can do anything for him." "Mrs.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...no fireside, howsoe'er defended. But has one vacant chair! 6506 'The Reaper and the Flowers' There is a Reaper whose name is Death, And, with his sickle...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. 6507 'Santa Filomena' (on Florence Nightinj A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of... | |
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