 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagine
...little maid, Your limbs they are^live; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then ye are only five." " 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. My stockings there I often knit, My kerchief there I hem;... | |
 | Flowers - 1835 - 174 pagine
...graves are green, they maybe seen," The little maid replied, " Twelve steps of more from mymother's door, And they are side by side. My stockings there...there upon the ground I sit— I sit and sing to them. K 2 And often after sunset, Sir, When it is light and fair» I take my little porringer, And eat my... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1836 - 226 pagine
..." Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little girl replied ; " Twelve steps or more, from mother's door, And they are side by side. My stockings...'kerchief there I hem ; And there upon the ground I sit, And sit and sing to them. And often after sunset, sir, When it is light and fair, I take my little... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 pagine
...little maid, Your limbs they are alive ; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then ye are only five." " Their graves are green, they may be seen," 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 kerchief there I hem,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1839 - 302 pagine
...little maid, Your limbs they are alive ; If two are in the church-yard laid, Then ye are only five." " Their graves are green, they may be seen," 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 'kerchief there I hem... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pagine
...Two of us in the churchyard lie, Beneath the churchyard tree." " You run about, my little maid ; " Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little...'kerchief there I hem ; And there upon the ground I sit, And sit and sing to them. " And often after sunset, sir, When it is light and fair, I take my little... | |
 | Childhood - 1841 - 384 pagine
...alive ; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then ye are only five." " Their graves are green—they may be seen," The little maid replied, " Twelve steps...side by side. '' My stockings there I often knit, Sly kerchief there I hem; And there upon the ground I sit, And sing a song to them. " And often after... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 pagine
...Lett.) Something timid and cautious in her step, led you to suspect she was blind. (Buhner's Pomp.) »Their graves are green, they may be seen,« The...from my mother's door, And they are side by side. < (Wordtworth'i Poems.) Grace was in all her steps , heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and... | |
 | 1842 - 1046 pagine
...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 steps or more From mother's door, And they are side by side. My stockings there I often knit, My kerchief there I hem,... | |
 | 1842 - 514 pagine
...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 steps or more From mother's door, And they are side by side. My stockings there I often knit, My kerchief there I hem,... | |
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Then did the little maid 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 ye are only five." "Their graves... 
