 | 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... | |
 | Mrs. Eliza H. Anderson - 1863 - 272 pages
...lives here besides you and your mother ? ' ' No,' she said. I thought of the beautiful lines, — . 'A simple child, . . . That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What can it know of death ? ' ' " But they are dead ; those two are dead ; Their spirits are in heaven :... | |
 | James Fleming - 1863 - 404 pages
...ask from a GOD, yet deny to a brother ? ELIZA COOK. "WE ARE SEVEN." A SIMPLE child, dear brother Jem, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What can it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl, Of eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick... | |
 | Sarah Stuart Robbins - 1864 - 350 pages
...fulness of the joy of life. This, the children could well understand. Life to a child was everything. "A simple child, That lightly draws its breath ; And...its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? " Death to it is a strange, dark, cold mystery. Life eternal, joyous life, is but the blossoming... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1864 - 384 pages
...calling unexpectedly is a better. Now an idea for a leading * *' A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death?" WOBDSWORTH. article is worth an editor's ransom. Now it is not worth while to quarrel, because it must... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 316 pages
...without my Jane, O Sexton, do not then remove her, Let one grave hold the Loved and Lover ! 1799 CXIII WE ARE SEVEN A simple Child, That lightly draws its...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... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1862 - 194 pages
...Sometimes a long dash, or a succession of dots, is used instead of the stars ; as, L d M y for Lord Murray. A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And...life in every limb, — What should it know of death ? There are three marks termed accents, — the Acute ( ' ), the Grave ( l ), and the Circumflex (... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...Man.* Mg Heart Leaps Up. The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door. Lucg Grag. Stanza 2. A simple Child, That lightly draws its breath, And...its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? We are Seven. Drink, pretty creature, drink. The Pet Lamb. Until a man might travel twelve stout... | |
 | Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1865 - 136 pages
...cd.), pp. 24, 24. F no more exquisite enforcement of the truth which I have just urged as a motive :— A simple Child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limh. What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl: She was eight years old, she said;... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1866 - 190 pages
...arms, For ever undefiled, Amid the little cherub band, Is thy beloved child. S«L?r are Stfam. • A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And...little cottage Girl ; She was eight years old, she said ; Iler hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air,... | |
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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. 
