 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 pàgines
...the Lord; praise him and magnify TIJTTI for ever.1* WE ABE SEVEN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life...Her hair was thick with many a curl, That clustered P) round her head. ' Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be ? ' ' How many ? seven... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pàgines
...But be ndmonish'd by his grave, And think, and fear 1 WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life...she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl That cluster'd round her head. She harl a rustic woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her eyes were fair,... | |
 | Ellen Pickering - 1853 - 386 pàgines
...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...rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her face was fair, and very fair, Her beauty made me e'lad. 'WORDSWOUTII. WHAT a glorious dayJ. Not a heavy... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 pàgines
...peculiar style, he makes a little cottage girl give expression to this affecting sentiment : — " I met a little cottage girl — She was eight years...thick with many a curl, That clustered round her head. ' Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be ?' ' How many ? Seven in all,' she said, And,... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pàgines
...intrinsic grace." Methought the polished Scissors blushed To have said so much, — and all was hushed. WE ARE SEVEN. - A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws...was wildly clad ; Her eyes were fair and very fair, " Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be ?" " How many ? Seven in all," she said, And... | |
 | Mary (aunt, pseud.) - 1854 - 104 pàgines
...all the rest ? Child, it is God who loves thee best. WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath ; And feels its life...she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl, That cluster'd round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her eyes were blue,... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 614 pàgines
...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...thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. ' Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be ?' 'How many? Seven in all,' she said, And... | |
 | Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1854 - 156 pàgines
...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,...thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. • ' Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be ?' ' How many? Seven in all,' she said,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 432 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pàgines
...intrinsic grace." Methought the polished Scissors blushed To have said so much, — and all was hushed . WE ARE SEVEN. - A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws...was wildly clad ; Her eyes were fair and very fair, " Sisters and brothers, little maid. How many may you be ?" " How many ? Seven in all," she saidg And... | |
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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. 
