| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...song That whistles in the wind. ''-vi'^-'v» * WE ARE SEVEN. - A SIMPLE Child, -<-<.. * <s <-/v>That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death 7 I met a little cottage Girl ; She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 432 pages
...applicable to my own being. I have said elsewhere " A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, Aud feels 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... | |
| Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 592 pages
...peculiar style, he makes a little cottage girl give expression to this affecting sentiment : — " I met a little cottage girl. She was eight years old she aaid ; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. ' Sisters and brothers, little... | |
| 1855 - 458 pages
...Methought the polished Scissors blushed To have said so much, — and all was hushed. WK ARE SEVEN. - A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws its breath, And...was wildly clad ; Her eyes were fair and very fair, " Sisters and brothers, little maid,* How many may you be?" " How many ? Seven in all," she said, And... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...Methought the polished Scissors blushed To have said so much, — and all was hushed . WE ARE SEVEN. - A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws its breath, And...was wildly clad ; Her eyes were fair and very fair, " Sisters and brothers, little maid. How many may you be ?" " How many ? Seven in all," she saidg And... | |
| Select poetry - 1855 - 80 pages
...freedom and in joy. "WE ARE SEVEN." A SIMPLE child, dear brother Jem, That lightly draws its breath, That feels its life in every limb— What should it know...she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl, That cluster'd round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad; Her eyes were fair,... | |
| William Henry Furness - 1855 - 318 pages
...I then?" In the exuberauce and joy of living, it is not in him to conceive of his ceasing to be, " A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And...its life in every limb, What should it know of death ?" asks the religious poet of our age, who, in his immortal ode, entitled, " Intimations of Immortality... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1856 - 538 pages
...shalt thou be to future men As in old time;—thou not in vain Art Nature's favorite. WE ARE SEVEN. A SIMPLE Child, That lightly draws its breath, And...old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl She had a rustic woodland air, And she was wildly clad: Her eyes were fair, and very fair; Her beauty... | |
| Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...through the dreadful sl;ade. ADDISOK WE ABE SEVEN. A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws its breath, That feels its life in every limb, What should it know...she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl, That cluster'd round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her eyes were fair,... | |
| W. B. Clark - 1856 - 160 pages
...peculiar style, he makes a little cottage girl give expression to this affecting sentiment : — " I met a little cottage girl, She was eight years old,...thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. ' Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be?' ' How many? Seven in all/ ehe said, And... | |
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