 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...  Ward's miscellany (and family magazine). - Seite 351837Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1852 - 172 Seiten
...the little cherub band, Is thy beloved child. EfJe are Srbcn. • A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death I I MET a little cottage Girl ; She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl... | |
 | George Searle Phillips - 1852 - 314 Seiten
...as a state applicable to my own being. 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 difficulties came, as from a source... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 360 Seiten
...that he did not know how that could be, for he had been practising all night.' CXIII. WE ARE SEVEN. 1. And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? 2. I met a little cottage-girl : She was eight years old, she said •. Her hair was thick with many... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 Seiten
...him and magnify TIJTTI for ever.1* WE ABE SEVEN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What...Her hair was thick with many a curl, That clustered P) round her head. ' Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be ? ' ' How many ? seven... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 Seiten
...his grave, And think, and fear 1 WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb. What...she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl That cluster'd round her head. She harl a rustic woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her eyes were fair,... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 Seiten
...peculiar style, he makes a little cottage girl give expression to this affecting sentiment : — " I met a little cottage girl — She was eight years...hair was 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... | |
 | Forget-Me-Not, Forget-me-not - 1853 - 138 Seiten
...ending; Of serious faith and inward glee; That was the Song—the Song for me ! Wt m A SIMPLE child, I met a little cottage girl: She was eight years old...hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad : Her eyes were fair, and very fair;... | |
 | Ellen Pickering - 1853 - 386 Seiten
...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 with many a curl That clustered round her head ; She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her face was fair, and very fair,... | |
 | 1853 - 248 Seiten
...prove The blessed influence of love. EB THE CHILD AT THE TOMB. "A little child That lightly draws Ha breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death 1 I MKT one morning a little girl with a half-playful countenance, beaming blue eyes and sunny locks,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1853 - 300 Seiten
...life in every limb, What should it know of death f I met a liule cottage girl: She was eight TTears old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her eyes were fair, and very fair... | |
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