 | Walter Aimwell - Children - 1858 - 262 pages
...that two at Conway dwell, And two are gone to sea, Yet ye are seven ! — I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be." Then did the little maid reply,...Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little maid replied, " Twelve steps or more from my mother's door And they are side by side. " My stockings... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...that two at Conway dwell, And two are gone to sea, Yet ye are seven ! — I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be ? Then did the little maid reply,...Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little maid replied, " Twelve steps or more from my mother's door. And they are side by side. My stockings... | |
 | Children - 1858 - 240 pages
...seven ! — I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be." Then did the little maid reply, " Seven hoys and girls are we ; Two of us in the churchyard lie,...Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little maid replied, " Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, And they are side by side. " My stockings... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1903 - 248 pages
...life and death that seems to him a marvellous thing. In vain he attempts to put the question : — You run about, my little Maid, Your limbs they are...are in the church-yard laid Then ye are only five. The child finds no metaphysical difficulties in the fact of her own life, and no matter for dubious... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne - Social Science - 1979 - 504 pages
...to sea. Yet ye are seven. I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be." 2 Then did the little girl reply, "Seven boys and girls are we; Two of us in..."Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little maid replied. Twelve steps or more from mother's door, And they are side by side. "My stockings there... | |
 | Mary V. Jackson - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 324 pages
...Comv:iy dwell, " And two are gone to sea, ^ Yet you are seven : I pray you tell, " Sweet maid, liow this may be." Then did the little maid reply, "Seven boys and girls are we; " Two of us in the chuvch-yard lie, " Beneath the church-yard tree." '' You run about my pret¿y maid, " Your limbs they... | |
 | Frances Ferguson - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 198 pages
...perspective, the traveler's explanation of his calculation sounds like a crude enough empirical distinction. "You run about, my little maid, Your limbs they are...are in the church-yard laid, Then ye are only five." But his insistence upon counting what is there, what one can point to, and not to count what isn't,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...Yet ye are seven! I pray you tell, Sweet Maid, how this may be.' Then did the little Maid reply, 30 'Seven boys and girls are we; Two of us in the church-yard...'Their graves are green, they may be seen,' The little Maid replied, 'Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, 40 And they are side by side. 'My stockings... | |
 | McGuffey - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 216 pages
...the churchyard cottage, I Dwell near them with my mother." 6. "You say that two at Conway dwell, 7. Then did the little maid reply, " Seven boys and girls...the churchyard lie, Beneath the churchyard tree." 8. "You run about, my little maid, Your limbs, they are alive; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then... | |
 | Edward Larrissy - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 266 pages
...and that of her dead siblings is staked upon the contrast between her movement and their stasis: ' "You run about, my little maid, / Your limbs they...in the church-yard laid, / Then ye are only five" ' (lines 33-6). By contrast, 'Faith and Despondency' opens with the father compelling his child's stasis,... | |
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Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother; And, in the churchyard cottage, I Dwell near them with my mother. 
