 There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded gram at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. * * * * " He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves, It was for the Lord of Paradise'...  The Living Authors of America: 1st ser - Page 164by Thomas Powell - 1850 - 365 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Martha Noyes Williams - Suffering - 1853 - 290 pages
...hindering thing is gone, And undisturbed she may work on. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. HW LONGFELLOW. 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. " Shall I have nought that is fair ? " saith... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. 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. " Shall I have nought that is fair 2" saith he;... | |
 | Martha Noyes Williams - Suffering - 1853 - 292 pages
...hindering thing is gone, And undisturbed she may work on. THE EEAPER AND THE FLOWERS. HW LONGFELLOW. 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. " Shall I have nought that is fair ? " saith... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - Future life - 1853 - 410 pages
...not pious — yet a little while, and we shall see them no more for ever! THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. 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. " Shall I have nought that is fair?" saith he... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...he chafed it still, and could not lay it down. LESSON LXXI. y\ THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. 1. Tiieke 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. 2. *' Shall I have naught that is fair? " saith... | |
 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - Wensleydale (England) - 1854 - 380 pages
...to those many occasions of sin which, in maturer years, cause our weakness so frequently to fall. " There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with...gram at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. ' Shall I have nought that is fair ?' said he; ' Have nought but the bearded grain? Though the breath... | |
 | Mary Alicia Taylor - 1854 - 410 pages
...ready, when the merry group dispersed to join their mother and uncle in the dining-room. CHAPTER IX. " 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." LADV HETHERINGTON had changed her intention... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 504 pages
...any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. 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. " Shall I have nought that is fair ?" saith he... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...witness thy dying, In the arms of Hellvellyn and Catchedicam. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. — LangfeUmc. There is a reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers Wt grow between. " Shall I have nought that is fair ? " saith he;... | |
 | Edwin Davies (D.D.) - Bereavement - 1854 - 156 pages
...all, has died on Calvary's cross to redeem them from perishing! CHAPTER II. GATHERED SPRING FLOWERS. " 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. ' Shall I have nought that is fair ?' saith he;... | |
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