 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1852 - 356 pages
...of Paradise LONGFELLOW. " My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they Where he was once...white These sacred blossoms wear." And the mother gave, in tears and pain. Those flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again... | |
 | Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 pages
...bound them in his sheaves, " My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once...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... | |
 | American poetry - 1852 - 196 pages
...bound them in his sheaves. "My Lord has need of these flow'rets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled ; "Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where He was once...white, These sacred blossoms wear." And the mother gave, in tear and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she would find them all again, In... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 520 pages
...bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once...white, These sacred blossoms wear." And the mother gave, in tears and pain, f O, not in cruelty,-not in wrath, The Reaper came that day ; 'T was an angel... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. Deal1 tokens of the earth arc they, Where He was once a child. '• They shall all...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... | |
 | J. B. Syme - Death - 1852 - 196 pages
...flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, THE MOURNER'S FRIEND. " They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted...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... | |
 | Samuel Irenĉus Prime - Children - 1852 - 172 pages
...bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord hath need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. " They all shall bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care ; And saints upon their garments white... | |
 | Katherine Parker Gordon - Children in literature - 1852 - 206 pages
...HEAVEN. CHILDREN IN HEAVEN. u My Lord hath need of these flowerets gay, 1 The Kcaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child." IN the broad fields of heaven, Amid undying flowers, Dwelling by Life's clear river, In the immortal... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 504 pages
...bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once...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 I... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord hath need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said and smiled; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once...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 O, not... | |
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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. 
