 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 492 pages
...childhood 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 difficulty came as from a sense... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1851 - 780 pages
...childhood 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 difficulty came, as from a sense... | |
 | American periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...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 difficulty came, as from a sense... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself didst lay. 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 •? 1 Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1803. • Composed iu Loudou i I met a little... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me! We are Seven. — — • — A simple child That...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... | |
 | Mary O. Ward - Children - 1852 - 292 pages
...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,...thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. " Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be?" "How many? seven in all," she said, And... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - Anecdotes - 1852 - 360 pages
...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...were fair, and very fair, Her beauty made me glad. 4. " Sisters, and Brothers, little Maid, " How many may you be ? " " How many ? Seven in all," she... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - Children - 1852 - 172 pages
...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... | |
 | 1852 - 890 pages
...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...she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl That cluster'd round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air. And she was poorly clad : Her eyes were fair,... | |
 | George Searle Phillips - 1852 - 314 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
