| William Holmes McGuffey - 1920 - 390 pàgines
...THERE is a Keaper whose name is Death, 2. "Shall I have naught that is fair?" saith he; "Have naught but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these...is sweet to me, I will give them all back again." 3. He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves; It was for the Lord... | |
| Henry Whyte - 1920 - 384 pàgines
...REAPER. (By 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 naught that is fair ?" saith he, " Have naught but the bearded grain ; Though the breath of these flowers... | |
| John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1920 - 520 pàgines
...Compound Sentence, p. 111). Analyse the following compound sentences according to Scheme II. : — (a) "He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves." — Longfellow, (b) " On piety, humanity is built; And, on humanity, much happiness." — Young. (c)... | |
| Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland - 1912 - 614 pàgines
...to quote the lines : — " 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." The sickle of the reaper takes upon itself many forms, but one of its most deadly, most awe-inspiring,... | |
| 1865 - 398 pàgines
...(2 Kings iv. 18—20). 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 ? " said he ; " Have nought but the bearded grain ? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to... | |
| Longfellow - 1922 - 722 pàgines
...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. “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 but the bearded grain? He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping... | |
| Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 526 pàgines
...HENRY WADSWORTH 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 naught that is fair?" saith he; "Have naught but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers... | |
| 1922 - 690 pàgines
...PLANETARY HEALING By "APOLLONIUS" 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. Not in cruelty, not in wrath, The reaper came that day ; An Angel visited the green earth And took... | |
| Elmer James Bailey - 1922 - 282 pàgines
...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... | |
| Charles H. Sylvester - 1922 - 540 pàgines
...brings out the meaning: " ' 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.' "A Reaper — a man walking in the grain, cutting it as he goes. Not with a machine such as we see... | |
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