 | George Searle Phillips - 1852 - 314 pages
...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 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 - Anecdotes - 1852 - 346 pages
...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 a curl, That cluster' d round her head. 3. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad : Her eyes were... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - Anecdotes - 1852 - 360 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...But be ndmonish'd by 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...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, and very fair — Her beauty... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 pages
...the Lord; praise 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...she said ; 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... | |
 | Forget-Me-Not, Forget-me-not - 1853 - 138 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 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...she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl, That clustered round her head. ' Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be ?' ' How many ?... | |
 | Ellen Pickering - 1853 - 386 pages
...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,... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1853 - 248 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1853 - 300 pages
...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,... | |
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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 ? 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... 
