...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...

...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...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,...

...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...

...into her eyes. 1 . From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Reaper and the Flowers" (1839, Stanza 1): "There is a Reaper whose name is Death, / And with...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....

...But one dead Iamb is there! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended. But has one vacant chair! 6506 6507 'Santa Filomena' (on Florence Nightinj A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of...

...of Honor, thus perpetuating her memory in this Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. "There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between." MRS. CAROLINE F. KIMBALL, MRS. JENNIE D. RAYBURN, MRS. FRANCES C. FUNK. SUSAN MAC!NTIRE VINTON. —...

...ultor.' Let someone arise from my bones as an avenger." * chapter fifteen * Facing the Grim Reaper There is a reaper whose name is death. And with his sickle keen, He reaps bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow in between. Longfellow, The Reaper and the Flowers...