 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
 | lady Avice (fict. name.) - 1851 - 336 pages
...Straight is the line of Duty ; Walk by the last, and thou shall see The other ever followeth thee !" " And the mother gave in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should meet them all again, In the fields of light above." LONGFELLOW. AVICE, too, had learned to fear. To... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care ; And saints, upon their garments white, 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... | |
 | Mrs. Anderson (Caroline Dorothea), Caroline Dorothea Anderson (hon.) - 1852 - 280 pages
...God, who had allowed her to enjoy them for a few short years. He had now " resumed them again," " 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... | |
 | J. B. Syme - Death - 1852 - 196 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. 0, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came... | |
 | Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...the trailing- garments of ihe Night Sweep through her marble halls !" JANK E. BKNHAM. (> III. " And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love." J.VNK E. BKNHAM. 10 IV. Country Church-yard. BIKKET FOSTER 11 V. Flowers. JANE E. BEN HAM. Ifi VI.... | |
 | Martha Noyes Williams - Suffering - 1853 - 292 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. 0, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 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 should find them all again, In the fields of light above. 7. 0, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 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 lu the fields of light above. O, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - Future life - 1853 - 410 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 would find them all again In the fields of light above. O, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The reaper... | |
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