 | Longfellow - 1922 - 722 pages
...with the familiar stanza from Henry Vaughan, beginning: Dear beauteous death; the jewel of the just! THERE is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with...“Shall I have naught that is fair?” saith he; Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again.” “Have naught... | |
 | 1865 - 398 pages
...and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died" (2 Kings iv. 18—20). THERE is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with...And the flowers that grow between. " Shall I have nought that is fair ? " said he ; " Have nought but the bearded grain ? Though the breath of these... | |
 | Charles H. Sylvester - 1922 - 540 pages
...kindly in his comments. Something like the following might be the way he brings out the meaning: " ' There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.' "A Reaper — a man walking in the grain, cutting it as he goes. Not with a machine such as we see... | |
 | 1922 - 690 pages
...OF THE DARKLY-SHINING FACE" THE,FOURTH OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON PLANETARY HEALING By "APOLLONIUS" There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. Not in cruelty, not in wrath, The reaper came that day ; An Angel visited the green earth And took... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1922 - 910 pages
...still pursuing. Learn to labor and to wait. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS THEKE is a Reaper, whose nann is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, 'Shall I have naught that is fair?' saitb he; 'Have naught but the bearded grain? Though the breath... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever. LONGFELLOW — Evangeline. Pt. II. V. 5 w ᎀ O 0 ⁀ lie reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. LONGFELLOW — Reaper ami... | |
 | Elmer James Bailey - 1922 - 282 pages
...more vividly, now as the Driver of the ploughshare in whose furrow we are sown; now as the Reaper who reaps the bearded grain at a breath and the flowers that grow between; and now as the Angel of the amaranthine wreath, descending to whisper with a breath divine the summons... | |
 | William Valentine Kelley - 1922 - 358 pages
...him in flocks; but with this difference, that her magic spell spares neither sex nor age, but "mows the bearded grain at a breath and the flowers that grow between." Children of all ages from six to seventy follow in her train. In Chicago the street urchins are out... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 pages
...And the lost clue regain? 34 The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower • Unfinished must remain ! THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS There is a Reaper whose...between. "Shall I have naught that is fair?" saith he; 5 "Have naught but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give... | |
 | Lillian Eichler Watson - 1924 - 912 pages
...faithful to the old superstitious notion that attributed death to a grim and unseen Reaper. He tells us: There is a Reaper whose name is Death And with his...grain at a breath And the flowers that grow between. Among the ancients, death was the great Evil before which the strongest tribesman quailed. Our savage... | |
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I have nought that is fair?" saith he; "Have nought 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... 
