 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...My kerchief there I hem ; And there upon the ground I sit — I sit and sing to them. WE ARE SEVEN. I take my little porringer. And eat my supper there....went away. So in the churchyard she was laid ; And all the summer dry, Together round her grave we play'd, My brother John and I. And when the ground... | |
 | Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar - 1979 - 370 pages
...there I often knit My kerchief there I hem; And there upon the ground I sit, And sing a song to them. "And often after sun-set, Sir, When it is light and...take my little porringer, And eat my supper there." (41-49) The Wordsworthian child clings to unity of setting as tenaciously as Blake's "Infant Joy" clings... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne - 1979 - 504 pages
...there I often knit, My kerchiefs there I hem; And there upon the ground 1 sit, And sing a song to them. "And often after sunset, sir, When it is light and fair I take my little porrige And eat my supper there. "The first that died was sister Jane; In bed she moaning lay Till... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...there I often knit, My kerchief there I hem; And there upon the ground I sit, And sing a song to them. 'And often after sun-set, Sir, When it is light and...And eat my supper there. 'The first that died was sister Jane; 50 In bed she moaning lay, Till God released her of her pain; And then she went away.... | |
 | McGuffey - 1997 - 216 pages
...often knit, My kerchief there I hem; And there upon the ground I sit, And sing a song to them. 11. "And often after sunset, sir, When it is light and...take my little porringer, And eat my supper there. 12. "The first that died was sister Jane; Till God released her from her pain; And then she went away.... | |
 | John Hollander - 1997 - 342 pages
...accounted for: "Their graves are green, they may be seen" she says, and goes on to report that . . . often after sun-set, Sir When it is light and fair,...take my little porringer, And eat my supper there. We might feel that no child would say "my little porringer," any more than "my little shoes"— this... | |
 | Peter de Bolla - 2003 - 175 pages
...there I often knit, My kerchief there I hem; And there upon the ground I sit— I sit and sing to them. And often after sunset, Sir, When it is light and...went away. So in the church-yard she was laid, And all the summer dry, Together round her grave we played, My brother John and I. And when the ground... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 pages
...there I often knit, My 'kerchief there 1 hem; And there upon the ground I sit I sit and sing to them. 'And often after sunset, Sir, When it is light and fair, I take my litde porringer, And eat my supper there. 'The first that died was litde Jane; In bed she moaning lay,... | |
 | Stephen Leacock - 2004 - 266 pages
...runs along in its cheerful discussion in a church yard — "and often after sunset when all is bright and fair, I take my little porringer and eat my supper there!" Nonsense! Wordsworth as an old man might take a little porringer, provided he took it regularly and... | |
 | William Roetzheim - 2006 - 760 pages
...there I often knit, my kerchief there I hem; and there upon the ground I sit, and sing a song to them. And often after sunset, Sir, when it is light and...porringer, and eat my supper there. The first that died was sister Jane; in bed she moaning lay, till God released her of her pain; and then she went away. So... | |
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Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little Maid replied, " Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, And they are side by side. My stockings there I often knit, My kerchief there I hem ; And there upon the ground I sit — I sit and sing... 
