 | William Wordsworth - 1866 - 508 pages
...to this day She is a living child ; That you may see sweet Lucy Gray Upon the lonesome wild. WE AEE SEVEN. A SIMPLE child That lightly draws its breath,...met a little cottage girl : She was eight years old, sh? said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland... | |
 | Reason - Children's poetry - 1866 - 82 pages
...chair away with noiseless foot ; And lift my heart to God above, In praise for all His wondrous love. WE ARE SEVEN. A SIMPLE child That lightly draws its...its life in every limb, What should it know of death 1 I met a little cottage girl ; She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust. WE ARE 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, Shirley. She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That cluster'd round... | |
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...from a GOD, yet deny to a brother ? ELIZA COOK. " WE ABE SEVEN." A SIMPLE child, dear brother Jem, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What can it know of death ? tl met a little cottage girl, She had a rustic woodland air, And she was wildly... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 pages
...is it now I am a man ; So be it when 1 shall grow old. < ir let me die ! \\'E ARE SEVKN. A -MI i -ii Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limit, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl : She was eight years old, she said... | |
 | Grace Greenwood - American essays - 1867 - 236 pages
...struck by the effect which the brightness and cheerfulness of Woodlands had upon my little daughter, " A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, — What can it know of death ? " She laughed and shouted, and raced up and down the flowery walks, wild with... | |
 | Edward Clarke Lowe - 1868 - 186 pages
...friend preferr'd To liberty without. Cowper. 49. — WE ARE SEVEN. A SIMPLE CHILD, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What can it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl ; She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was... | |
 | Ann Jane - 1868 - 254 pages
...What should a little child know of death ? " A simple child. That lightly draws its breath, . That feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ?" I suspect that our cold indifference to this genius for happiness which belongs to childhood, is to blame... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...Man.* My Heart Leaps Uf. The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door. Lucy Gray, Stan2a 2. A simple Child, That lightly draws its breath, And...its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? We are Seven. Drink, pretty creature, drink. The Pet Lamb. Until a man might travel twelve stout... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...free, So didst thou travel on life's common way 299. WE ARE SBVBN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death? 1 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? 
