 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
 | Jean Roemer - 1857 - 332 pages
...calm but Heav'n ! — MOORE. WE ARE SEVEN. 275 CVI— 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 ; She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 pages
...man can sell ! " Proud creature was she the next day. Tha little orphan, Alice Fell ! 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... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1858 - 108 pages
...ENGRAVED BY WILLIAM THOMAS, EDMUND EVANS, JAMES COOPER, THOMAS BOLTON, AND SV SLADER. 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... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...and her grief I told ; And I gave money to the host, To buy a new cloak for the old. 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... | |
 | 1858 - 240 pages
...well ; God's good design I see, That where our treasure is, our hearts may be ! JG SAXE. 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... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1858 - 184 pages
...Sometimes a long dash, or a succession of dots, is used instead of the stars; as, L il M y for Lord Murray. A simple child, .* That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, — "WTiat should it know of death ? There are three marks termed accents, — the Acute ( '), the... | |
 | Book - 1859 - 334 pages
...golden, By the birds from every bough, When earth was nearer heaven than now. Thomas Miller 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... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1859 - 202 pages
...sleep and 'when we wake; his praise shall dwell continually upon our lips, -s XLIL — WE AEE 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,... | |
 | Elementary books - 1860 - 270 pages
...again to tell me that I am worse than the tigers." 21. WE ARK SEVEN J OR, A CHILD'S NOTION OF DEATH. 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... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...over ; Thus, sighing, look through the waves of Time For the long-faded glories they cover. MOORE. nn 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... | |
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