 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...That I have heard her cry, " Oh misery ! oh misery I " O woe is ine ! oh misery !" 53 WL ARE SE^EN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its Kfe in ever)- limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl, She was eight years... | |
 | William Burdon - 1805 - 108 pages
...feldom yearn, Could I tut teach 'the 'hundredth part Of what from thee I learn. WE ARE SEVEN.. A fimple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What mould it knaw of death ?. I met a little cottage girl, She was eight years old, fhe faid ;:. Her hair... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...Creature was she the next da^y, The little Orphan, Alice Fell! IX. f WE ARE SEVEN. * -A SIMPLE child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? J met a little cottage Girl: She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...wantonly The many-coloured images impressed Upon the bosom of a placid lake. WE ARE SEVEN. A SIMPLE child t dreadful sight : So swift, so pure, .so cold, so...They pierced my frame with icy wound. And all that cottage-girl: She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...self-dissatisfaction Quaint stories of the bird's attraction! WE AHE SEVEN. — — A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? l met a little cottage girl : She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl... | |
 | Christian education - 1843 - 350 pages
...of the land of Judea, and part of Arabia lying contiguous to it. AFFECTING INCIDENT. 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... | |
 | George Ramsay - Ethics - 1843 - 574 pages
...either of life or death ; and therefore he can neither desire the one nor fear the other. A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? 1 After a time the idea of death arises from witnessing it in animals, and with it comes a notion... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...heaven hath lent him, And weave 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 m every limb, What should it know of death 1 I met a little cottage girl, She was eight years old,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1846 - 174 pages
...revenge I could ta1 =>, — returning good for evil." LESSON XXII. \ We are Seven. — ^ A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, X What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl ; She was eight years old, she said; Her... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1847 - 500 pages
...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... | |
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