 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 pages
...reply, " Seven boys 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... | |
 | Book - 1864 - 396 pages
..." Seven boys 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...they are side by side. My stockings there I often lyrit, My kerchief there I hem ; And there upon the ground I sit — I sit and sing to them. And often... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1903 - 248 pages
...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... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne - Social Science - 1979 - 504 pages
...reply, "Seven boys 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...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 - American literature - 1979 - 370 pages
...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 I hem; 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... | |
 | Frances Ferguson - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 198 pages
...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 - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...reply, 30 'Seven boys 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...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 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 216 pages
...reply, " Seven boys and 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...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 - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 266 pages
...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 - Art - 2003 - 175 pages
...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,... | |
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Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, And they are side by side. 
