 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 a...  The Sunday School Magazine - Sivu 311843Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 374 sivua
...to guard against surprise from every quarter. — Gusse. LESSON XLVIII. — WE ARK SEVEN. 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... | |
 | William Howitt, Mary Botham Howitt - 1862 - 236 sivua
...good woman of Conway, and no doubt many another perfon, hunted for it in Conway churchyard. A fimple child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What fliould it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl, She was eight years old, /he faid ; Her hair... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 sivua
...mother, I'm to be Queen of the May. TENNYSON. 7. WE ARE SEVEN. A SIMPLE child, dear brother Jim, -il. That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What can it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl ; She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 sivua
...Think of this, and rise with day, Gentle lords and ladies gay. WE ARE SEVEN.— Wordsworth. A SIMPLE child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death 1 I met a little cottage girl : She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a... | |
 | 302 sivua
...summers, when they're gone, Will appear as short as one. WE ARE SEVEN. A SIMPLE child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl : Her age was eight, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a cnrl,... | |
 | Mrs. Eliza H. Anderson - 1863 - 272 sivua
...besides you and your mother ? ' ' No,' she said. I thought of the beautiful lines, — . 'A simple child, . . . That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What can it know of death ? ' ' " But they are dead ; those two are dead ; Their spirits are in heaven :... | |
 | James Fleming - 1863 - 404 sivua
...ask from a GOD, yet deny to a brother ? ELIZA COOK. "WE ARE SEVEN." A SIMPLE child, dear brother Jem, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What can it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl, Of eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick... | |
 | Sarah Stuart Robbins - 1864 - 350 sivua
...the joy of life. This, the children could well understand. Life to a child was everything. "A simple child, That lightly draws its breath ; And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? " Death to it is a strange, dark, cold mystery. Life eternal, joyous life, is but the blossoming... | |
 | Book - 1864 - 396 sivua
...right, Lest God with such like misery Your wicked minds requite. OLD BALI.AD. WE ARE SEVEN. 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... | |
 | Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1864 - 104 sivua
...know of no more exquisite enforcement of the truth which I have just urged as a motive : — 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... | |
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