 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 360 psl.
...that he did not know how that could be, for he had been practising all night.' CXIII. WE ARE SEVEN. 1. And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? 2. I met a little cottage-girl : She was eight years old, she said •. Her hair was thick with many... | |
 | 1853 - 248 psl.
...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 - 1854 - 432 psl.
...childhood than to admit 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...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 psl.
...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... | |
 | Poetry book - 1854 - 152 psl.
...counsellor close 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 feels its me in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage Girl : She was eight years... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 592 psl.
...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 432 psl.
...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... | |
 | William Henry Furness - 1855 - 318 psl.
...I then?" 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...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 psl.
...Child is father of the 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...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 psl.
...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, bearing... | |
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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? 
