A SIMPLE Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage Girl : She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had... Select Pieces from the Poems of William Wordsworth - Sivu 4tekijä(t) William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 233 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1852 - 168 sivua
...thy Saviour's arms, For ever undefiled, Amid the little cherub band, Is thy beloved child. are • A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And...she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her eyes were fair,... | |
| 1852 - 890 sivua
...and the crown being discovered, was placed on the head of his successor, Henry VII." WE ABE SEVEN. I met a little cottage girl : She was eight years...head. She had a rustic, woodland air. And she was poorly clad : Her eyes were fair, and very fair ; Her beauty made me glad. " Sisters and brothers,... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 sivua
...ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me! We are Seven. — — • — A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And...limb, What should it know of death? I met a little cottage-girl : She was eight years old, she said Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered... | |
| Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1852 - 172 sivua
...Saviour's arms, For ever undefiled, Amid the little cherub band, Is thy beloved child. EfJe are Srbcn. • A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And...life in every limb, What should it know of death I I MET a little cottage Girl ; She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl... | |
| Mary O. Ward - 1852 - 292 sivua
...afraid : I would not lift my little hand To hurt what God has made. Mary Lundie Duncan. WE ARE SEVEN. I met a little cottage girl, She was eight years old,...she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. " Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be?" "How many? seven... | |
| George Searle Phillips - 1852 - 314 sivua
...than to admit the notion of death as a state applicable to my own being. I have said elsewhere — " A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And...its life in every limb, What should it know of death ?" But it was not so much from the source of animal vivacity that my difficulties came, as from a source... | |
| Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 346 sivua
...1. And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? 2. I met a little cottage-girl : She was eight years old, she said , Her hair was thick with many a curl, That cluster' d round her head. 3. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad : Her eyes were... | |
| Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 360 sivua
...that he did not know how that could be, for he had been practising all night.' CXIII. WE ARE SEVEN. 1. And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? 2. I met a little cottage-girl : She was eight years old, she said •. Her hair was thick with many... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 sivua
...But be ndmonish'd by his grave, And think, and fear 1 WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life...with many a curl That cluster'd round her head. She harl a rustic woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her eyes were fair, and very fair — Her beauty... | |
| W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 sivua
...the Lord; praise him and magnify TIJTTI for ever.1* WE ABE SEVEN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life...she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl, That clustered P) round her head. ' Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be ? ' ' How many... | |
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