 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...  Poetical Favorites, Yours and Mine - Seite 3271911 - 454 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1847 - 152 Seiten
...ere they flee, Youth's dew, and its fair blossoming, Be given, my God, to Thee. X-—We are Seven. I met a little cottage girl, She was eight years old,...said ; Her hair was thick ' with many a curl, That cluster^ round her head. * Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many ' may you be?" " How many ?—seven... | |
 | 1847 - 490 Seiten
...moves and has its being in eternity. It knows nothing of the beginning of life, or of its ending. " A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What can it know of death ? " " Over it immortality broods like the day." But, above all, bow absolute and... | |
 | 1847 - 500 Seiten
...moves and has its being in eternity. It knows nothing of the beginning of life, or of its ending. " A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And. feels its life in every limb, What can it know of death ? " " Over it immortality broods like the day." But, above all, how absolute and... | |
 | Emma C. Somers - 1848 - 156 Seiten
...through weal and woe, Thou knowest not thy future range; Life is a motley shifting show, WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And...had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad: "Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be 1" "How many? seven in all," she said, And... | |
 | 1848 - 154 Seiten
...every chance and change, the same for evermore. ANONYMOUS. THE AFFECTIONATE LITTLE GIRL. " A little child That lightly draws its breath And feels its...life in every limb— What should it know of death?" WORDSWORTH. AT Smyrna, the burial-ground of the Armenian, like that of the Moslem, is removed a short... | |
 | Tales - 1849 - 300 Seiten
...thumbing! Well ; let it be ! through weal and woo, Thou knowest not thy future range j WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And...had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad : Iler eyes wtre fair, and very fair ; Her beauty made me gliul. "Sisters and brothers, little maid,... | |
 | Poetical primer - 1849 - 320 Seiten
...thy daily store, Ever welcome to my door. LANGHORNE. ARE SEVEN. k (A SIMPLE child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life...old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl " Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be ? " " How many ? seven in all," she said,... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1849 - 330 Seiten
...moves and has its being in eternity. It knows nothing of the beginning of life, or of its ending. " A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What can it know of death?'' " Over it immortality broods like the day." But, above all, how absolute and... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1851 - 780 Seiten
...childhood than to admit 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...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... | |
 | 1851 - 608 Seiten
...than to admit 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...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... | |
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