 | 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,... | |
 | Mary (aunt, pseud.) - 1854 - 104 pages
...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 - Presbyterian Church - 1854 - 614 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 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.) - Bereavement - 1854 - 156 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...than 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...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...song That whistles in the wind. ''-vi'^-'v» * WE ARE SEVEN. - A SIMPLE Child, -<-<.. * <s <-/v>That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death 7 I met a little cottage Girl ; She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Presbyterian Church - 1854 - 592 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 old she aaid ; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. ' Sisters and brothers, little... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...applicable to my own being. I have said elsewhere " A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, Aud 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... | |
 | Select poetry - 1855 - 80 pages
...freedom and in joy. "WE ARE SEVEN." A SIMPLE child, dear brother Jem, That lightly draws its breath, That feels its life in every limb— What should it know...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 fair,... | |
 | William Henry Furness - Sermons, American - 1855 - 318 pages
...then?" In the exuberauce and joy of living, it is not in him to conceive of his ceasing to be, " A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels...its life in every limb, What should it know of death ?" asks the religious poet of our age, who, in his immortal ode, entitled, " Intimations of Immortality... | |
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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. She had a rustic, woodlai.d air, And she was wildly clad; Her eyes were fair, and very fair; — Her beauty made me glad.... 
