 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...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 3361851Full view - About this book
 | 1847 - 500 pages
...moves and has its being in eternity. It knows nothing of the beginning of life, or of its ending. " A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And. feels its life in every limb, What can it know of death ? " " Over it immortality broods like the day." But, above all, how absolute and... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1844 - 184 pages
...he, " is the noblest revenge I could take — returning good for evil." LESSON XXII. We are Seven. A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws its breath, And...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,... | |
 | 1848 - 154 pages
...every chance and change, the same for evermore. ANONYMOUS. THE AFFECTIONATE LITTLE GIRL. " A little child That lightly draws its breath And feels its...life in every limb— What should it know of death?" WORDSWORTH. AT Smyrna, the burial-ground of the Armenian, like that of the Moslem, is removed a short... | |
 | Tales - 1849 - 300 pages
...future range j Life is a motley shifting show, And thou a tiling of hope and change ! WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And...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... | |
 | Frederic Charles Cook - 1851 - 118 pages
...never looks behind ; And sings a soHtary song That whistles in the wind. WOHDSWOBTH. WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 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... | |
 | George Searle Phillips - 1852 - 314 pages
...The Thorn," I will quote, secondly and lastly, the note to the celebrated " Ode." " This," he says, " was composed during my residence at Town End, Grasmere....so much from the source of animal vivacity that my difficulties came, as from a source of the indomitableness of the spirit within me. I used to brood... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1852 - 168 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 360 pages
...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... | |
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