 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...  Little Masterpieces of English Poetry - Side 274redigert av - 1905Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Ellen Pickering - 1853 - 386 sider
...FALLEN . . . . . 303 XXIV. CONCLUSION . . . , .313 NAN DARRELL. CHAPTER I. 1 met a little cottage-girl, She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick...rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her face was fair, and very fair, Her beauty made me e'lad. 'WORDSWOUTII. WHAT a glorious dayJ. Not a heavy... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 sider
...peculiar style, he makes a little cottage girl give expression to this affecting sentiment : — " I met a little cottage girl — She was eight years...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,' she said, And,... | |
 | Poetry book - 1854 - 152 sider
...and ear and eye, And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly WE ARE SEVEN. - A SIMPLE Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its...fair, and very fair ; — Her beauty made me glad. " Sisters and brothers, little Maid, How many may you be?" " How many? Seven in all," she said, And... | |
 | Reading book - 1854 - 300 sider
...and He was the light of her life. LESSON 37. WE ARE SEVEN; OK, A CHILD'S NOTION OF DEATH. -A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its...fair, and very fair, — Her beauty made me glad. " Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be ? " " How many ? Seven in all," she said,... | |
 | 1854 - 456 sider
...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 feels its...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... | |
 | Poetry book - 1854 - 152 sider
...the Spider and the Fly WE ARE SEVEN. A SIMPLE Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its me in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met...fair, and very fair ; — Her beauty made me glad. " Sisters and brothers, little Maid, How many may you be?" " How many? Seven in all," she said, And... | |
 | Mary (aunt, pseud.) - 1854 - 104 sider
...all the rest ? Child, it is God who loves thee best. WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath ; And feels its life...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 blue,... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 614 sider
...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,' she said, And... | |
 | Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1854 - 156 sider
...artless, and beautiful. Such heart-consoling sentiments cannot be too well known, or become too popular. " 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,' she said,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 432 sider
...to admit the notion of death .as a state applicable to my own bemg. I have said elsewhere " A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And 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... | |
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