 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...free, So didst thou travel on life's common way 299. WE ARE SBVBN. 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 met a little cottage girl; She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pages
...smooth she trips along, And never looks behind ; And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind. X> WE ARE SEVEN. A simple Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limit, What should it know of death ! I met a little cottage Girl: She was eight years old, she said... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1870 - 382 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 feelings of animal vivacity that my difficulty came as from a sense... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1870 - 236 pages
...over ; Thus, sighing, look through the waves of Time For the long-faded glories they cover. MOORE. are A SIMPLE child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, — SlM What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl : She was eight years old, she said... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 382 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 feels its life la every limb. What should it know of death I " — But it was not so much from feelings of animal... | |
 | Edmund Routledge - 1871 - 196 pages
...before, But no wave ever brings the lost youth to the shore ! WE ARE SE VEN. BIT WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. A SIMPLE Child, That lightly draws its breath, And...little cottage girl, She was eight years old, she said ; er hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air,... | |
 | 1868 - 224 pages
...and sorrows have gone Her tears have long been dried, Again as brightly beams her eye 62 WE ABE SEVEK -A simple Child, That lightly draws its breath, And...met a little cottage Girl : She was eight years old, phe said : Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 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... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - 1872 - 530 pages
...scandalised at the abrupt and irregular — but very effective — opening of Wordsworth's little piece : — A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And...its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? So he mended the matter by instructing his pupils to read the first line thus : — A simple child,... | |
 | 1872 - 692 pages
...children full of life naturally think very little of death. And so the poet Wordsworth remarks : — A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And...its life in every limb. What should it know of death 1 Yet there are some things about death that even little children ought to know, especially what we... | |
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... -A SIMPLE Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death? 
