6485. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1807-1882. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.


NUMBER:	6485
AUTHOR:	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
QUOTATION:	There is a reaper whose name is Death, 1 And with his sickle keen He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.
ATTRIBUTION:	The Reaper and the Flowers.

Note 1.
There is a Reaper whose name is death.—Arnim and Brentano. Erntelied. (From “Des Knaben Wunderhorn,” ed. 1857, vol. i. p. 59.) [back]