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... Select Pieces from the Poems of William Wordsworth - Página 4por William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 233 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 páginas
...peculiar style, he makes a little cottage girl give expression to this affecting sentiment : — " I met a little cottage girl — She was eight years...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 ?... | |
| Forget-Me-Not, Forget-me-not - 1853 - 138 páginas
...ending; Of serious faith and inward glee; That was the Song—the Song for me ! Wt m A SIMPLE child, 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, woodland air, And she was wildly clad : Her eyes were fair,... | |
| Ellen Pickering - 1853 - 386 páginas
...FALLEN . . . . . 303 XXIV. CONCLUSION . . . , .313 NAN DARRELL. CHAPTER I. 1 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, woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her face was fair,... | |
| 1853 - 248 páginas
...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,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1853 - 300 páginas
...life in every limb, What should it know of death f I met a liule cottage girl: She was eight TTears old, 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 páginas
...trust in God, and He 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...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,... | |
| 1854 - 456 páginas
...Methought 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...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 - 1854 - 152 páginas
...heart and ear 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...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 - 1854 - 152 páginas
...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.) - 1854 - 156 páginas
...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?... | |
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