 | 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...woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her eyes were blue, and she was fair ; Her beauty made me glad. Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...polished Scissors blushed To have said so much, — and all was hushed. WE ARE SEVEN. - A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life...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... | |
 | Reading book - 1854 - 300 pages
...was the light of her life. LESSON 37. WE ARE SEVEN; OK, A CHILD'S NOTION OF DEATH. -A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life...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,... | |
 | Poetry book - Children's poetry - 1854 - 152 pages
...and eye, And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly WE ARE SEVEN. - A SIMPLE Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life...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,... | |
 | Poetry book - Children's poetry - 1854 - 152 pages
...the Spider and the Fly WE ARE SEVEN. A SIMPLE Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its me in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met...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,... | |
 | 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,...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?... | |
 | 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...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? Seven... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
