 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...the polished Scissors blushed To have said so much, — and all was hushed. WK ARE SEVEN. - 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,... | |
 | William Henry Furness - Sermons, American - 1855 - 318 pages
...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... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...the 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 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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1855 - 520 pages
...for our hero a requiem of fire ! 42. WE ARE SEVEN. — Wordsworth A simple child, dear brother Jim, 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... | |
 | 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 of death ? I met a little cottage girl ; She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Man.* Lucy Gray. St. 2. The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door. We are Seven. A simple Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? The Pet Lamb. Drink, pretty creature, drink. The Brothers. Until a man might travel twelve stout... | |
 | Sarah Gould - 1856 - 262 pages
...Then shall I be Prepared to see thy ftwi. THE CHILD AT THE TOMB. " A little child, That lightly iraws its breath, And feels its life in every limb — What should it know of death ? " I met one morning a little girl with a half-playful countenance, beaming blue eyes, and sunny locks,... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...through the dreadful sl;ade. ADDISOK WE ABE SEVEN. A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws its breath, That 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,... | |
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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 a... 
