 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
 | Evenings - 1860 - 386 pages
...sorrow and shame, Went back to Serendib as sad as he came. Poetical World. WE ARK SEVEN. -A SIHPIJI 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 Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 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... | |
 | Mourning mother - 1861 - 102 pages
...Snatched from the world, its sin and snares, Thy infant rests in heaven. BISHOP DOANE. 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... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...name led all the rest. LEIGH HUKT. WE ABE SEVEN. 18. WE AKE 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 Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 374 pages
...taught thus to guard against surprise from every quarter. — Gusse. LESSON XLVIII. — WE ARK 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... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...still the sport of some malignant power, He knows but from its shade the present hour. WE ABE 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,... | |
 | William Howitt, Mary Botham Howitt - 1862 - 236 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...as hawk 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...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 pages
...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,... | |
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