 I have naught that is fair ?" saith he ; "Have naught 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...  The Courtship of Miles Standish - 第62页作者：Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901 - 224 页全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | 1927 - 990 页
...place, because of a sense of filial obligation to her worthy parents ; until she also realized that, "There is a reaper whose name is Death And with his...grain at a breath. And the flowers that grow between. ' ' JACOB FLICKINGER-NANCY HALL II Jacob Flickinycr. b in Stone Valley, 1831, at four passed with his... | |
 | Regions beyond missionary union - 626 页
...McKie . ib. Italy — Mattoi . ib. France — Sagnol 173 America — Hutchinson and Bromley .... ib. " There is a reaper, whose name is death, And with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a hreath And the flowers that grow between." LONGFELLOW. THE main object of our paper is, as its title... | |
 | 1860 - 856 页
...HOPES AND FEARS. CHAPTER III. " There is a reaper — his nnme is Death, And with his sk'kle keen lie reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between." A LETTER from Humfrey ! how Honor's heart fluttered! Would it announce an engagement, or would it promise... | |
 | United States. 78th Cong., 2d sess., 1944. House, United States. Congress House - 1945 - 134 页
...sphere to the great unknown — Eternity. Longfellow expresses the thought most beautifully in words There is a Reaper whose name is Death, And with his...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. [86] Neither youth nor age, poverty nor riches, the humble nor the great, the weak nor the strong,... | |
 | United States. 78th Cong., 2d sess., 1944. House, United States. Congress House - 1945 - 132 页
...sphere to the great unknown — Eternity. Longfellow expresses the thought most beautifully in words There is a Reaper whose name is Death, And with his...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. Neither youth nor age, poverty nor riches, the humble nor the great, the weak nor the strong, the wicked... | |
 | United States. Congress House - 1950 - 90 页
...tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Mason] . Mr. MASON. Mr. Speaker, There la a Reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle...grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. This Grim Reaper has again appeared in our midst, somewhat startlingly, and has removed from among... | |
 | James Madison MacDonald - 1856 - 316 页
...is Death. "' Shall I have naught that is fair,' saith he; ' Have naught but the bearded grain? ' ' ' He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, ' And the flowers that grow between."1 • 0, it is a delightful thought, that the .blood of .Jesus Christ set them free from the... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1884 - 910 页
...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... | |
 | Robert Davidson - 1983 - 188 页
...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,... | |
 | Christine Quigley - 1996 - 372 页
...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... | |
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