 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pagina’s
...and girls are we, Two of us in the churchyard lie, Beneath the churchyard tree." " You run about, my little maid, Your limbs they are alive ; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then you are only five ? " " Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little maid replied ; " Twelve... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - 1858 - 262 pagina’s
...and girls are we ; Two of us in the churchyard lie, Beneath the churchyard tree." " You run about, my little maid, Your limbs they are alive ; If two are...And there upon the ground I sit. And sing a song to them. " And often after sunset, sir, When it is light and fair, I take my little porringer, And eat... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pagina’s
...and girls are we ; Two of us in the churchyard lie, Beneath the churchyard tree." " You run about, my little maid, Your limbs they are alive ; If two are...kerchief there I hem ; And there upon the ground I sit — I sit and sing to them. WE ARE SEVEN. I take my little porringer. And eat my supper there. The... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1903 - 248 pagina’s
...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 alive ; If two 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... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne - 1979 - 504 pagina’s
...and girls are we; Two of us in the church-yard lie Beneath the church-yard tree." "You run about, my little maid. Your limbs they are alive; If two are...The little maid replied. Twelve steps or more from mother's door, And they are side by side. "My stockings there I often knit, My kerchiefs there I hem;... | |
 | Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar - 1979 - 370 pagina’s
...Striving against my swaddling bands: Bound and weary I thought best To sulk upon my mothers breast. (28) "My stockings there I often knit My kerchief there...And there upon the ground I sit, And sing a song to them. "And often after sun-set, Sir, When it is light and fair, I take my little porringer, And eat... | |
 | Frances Ferguson - 1992 - 198 pagina’s
...explanation of his calculation sounds like a crude enough empirical distinction. "You run about, my little maid, Your limbs they are alive; If two 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 pagina’s
...and girls are we; Two of us in the church-yard lie, Beneath the church-yard tree.' 'You run about, my little Maid, Your limbs they are alive; If two are...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 I hem; And there... | |
 | McGuffey - 1997 - 216 pagina’s
...girls are we; Two of us in 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 ye are only five." 9. "Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little maid replied, " Twelve steps or more from... | |
 | Edward Larrissy - 1999 - 266 pagina’s
...dead siblings is staked upon the contrast between her movement and their stasis: ' "You run about, my little maid, / Your limbs they are alive; / If two...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,... | |
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Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, And they are side by side. 
