 | Book - 1859 - 334 pàgines
...dwell, And two are gone to sea, Yet we are seven ! — I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be ? " Then did the little maid reply, " Seven boys and girls...You run about, my little maid, Your limbs they are ulive ; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then ye are only five." " Their graves are green, they may... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1859 - 114 pàgines
...dwell, And two are gone to sea, Yet ye are seven! — I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be." Then did the little maid reply, " Seven boys and girls...the churchyard lie, Beneath the churchyard tree." ' i " You run about, my little maid, Your limbs they are alive ; If two are in the churchyard laid,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, George Croly - 1859 - 350 pàgines
...assertion of their graves as lying in the churchyard, in order to prove that they were living: " ' Their graves are green, they may be seen,' The little maid replied, ' Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, And they are side by side. And often after sunset, sir, When it is light and fair,... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1903 - 248 pàgines
...life and death that seems to him a marvellous thing. In vain he attempts to put the question : — You run about, my little Maid, Your limbs they are...are in the church-yard laid Then ye are only five. The child finds no metaphysical difficulties in the fact of her own life, and no matter for dubious... | |
 | Mary V. Jackson - 1989 - 324 pàgines
..." And two are gone to sea, ^ Yet you are seven : I pray you tell, " Sweet maid, liow this may be." Then did the little maid reply, "Seven boys and girls are we; " Two of us in the chuvch-yard lie, " Beneath the church-yard tree." '' You run about my pret¿y maid, " Your limbs they... | |
 | Frances Ferguson - 1992 - 198 pàgines
...perspective, the traveler's explanation of his calculation sounds like a crude enough empirical distinction. "You run about, my little maid, Your limbs they are...are in the church-yard laid, Then ye are only five." But his insistence upon counting what is there, what one can point to, and not to count what isn't,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pàgines
...Yet ye are seven! I pray you tell, Sweet Maid, how this may be.' Then did the little Maid reply, 30 'Seven boys and girls are we; Two of us in the church-yard...The little Maid replied, 'Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, 40 And they are side by side. 'My stockings there I often knit, My kerchief there... | |
 | McGuffey - 1997 - 216 pàgines
...the churchyard cottage, I Dwell near them with my mother." 6. "You say that two at Conway dwell, 7. Then did the little maid reply, " Seven boys and girls...the churchyard lie, Beneath the churchyard tree." 8. "You run about, my little maid, Your limbs, they are alive; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then... | |
 | Edward Larrissy - 1999 - 266 pàgines
...and that of her dead siblings is staked upon the contrast between her movement and their stasis: ' "You run about, my little maid, / Your limbs they...in the church-yard laid, / Then ye are only five" ' (lines 33-6). By contrast, 'Faith and Despondency' opens with the father compelling his child's stasis,... | |
 | Peter de Bolla - 2003 - 175 pàgines
...that their distinct worlds fit snugly together, as if this were a matter of getting addition right: if two are in the church-yard laid, then ye are only five; as if in telling —both counting and re-counting —the girl would undergo her talking cure. But,... | |
| |
Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother; And, in the churchyard cottage, I Dwell near them with my mother. 
