 That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? 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. She had a rustic, woodland...  The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Pagina 199door William Wordsworth - 1882Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pagina’s
...feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl, Shirley. She was eight years old, 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 fair,... | |
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pagina’s
...breath, And feels its life in every limb, What can it know of death ? tl met a little cottage girl, She had a rustic woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her eyes were blue, and she was fair : Her beauty made me glad : " Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1866 - 190 pagina’s
...child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death? I MET a little cottage Girl ; She was eight years old, she said ; Iler hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air,... | |
 | 1918 - 684 pagina’s
...child invariably gets and keeps. In teaching Wordsworth's "We Are Seven," I read the second stanza — I met a little cottage girl, She was eight years old,...thick with many a curl That clustered round her head — . f giving the impression in the second line that she was not eight years old, but said she was,... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne - 1979 - 504 pagina’s
...old, she said. Her hair wi,s thick with mnn-y a JI j E r ci rf curl TTiat clus-tered round her head. I met a little cottage girl; She was eight years old,...and very fair; Her beauty made me glad. "Sisters, brothers, little maid. How many may you be?" "How many? Seven in all," she said, And wondering looked... | |
 | L. J. Swingle - 1990 - 318 pagina’s
...male and the other female? The poem's third stanza seems to hint that this may be worth considering: "Her eyes were fair, and very fair; / — Her beauty made me glad" (11-12). The power that a Wordsworth poem exerts over our thought, its ability to tempt us into regions... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne, Pat Browne - 1991 - 196 pagina’s
...about a little eight year old girl in "We Are Seven," and captures the essence of the beauty mystique: "Her eyes were fair, and very fair;/ Her beauty made me glad." William Blake in his satirical "Proverbs of Hell" includes a classic facist proverb: "He whose face... | |
 | Gary Lee Harrison - 1994 - 250 pagina’s
...child That lightly draws its breath, And feels it* lite in every limb. What should it know of death ? 1 met a little cottage girl : She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a cur! Thar clustered round her hcud. Plate 6: "We Are Seven." John MacWhirter and John Pettie, Wordsworth's... | |
 | Margaret Russett - 1997 - 318 pagina’s
...Instead, she has been closely, if partially, observed: Her hair was thick with many a curl That cluster'd round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And...were fair, and very fair, - Her beauty made me glad. (£666:7-12) This abbreviation of the courtly blazon, recalling the "shooting lights/ Of thy wild eyes"... | |
 | McGuffey - 1997 - 216 pagina’s
...treated ivith abuse. 15. In'ju ry, harm done. 16. En tire'ly, altogether. LESSON LXIII. WE ARE SEVEN. 1. I met a little cottage girl: She was eight years old,...thick with many a curl, That clustered round her head. 2. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad : Her eyes were fair, and very fair;—... | |
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