 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 are green, they may be seen," The little maid replied, " Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, And they are side...  A School Reader - Page 77by Fanny E. Coe - 1908Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1798 - 240 pages
...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 ; " And there upon the ground I sit— " I sit and sing to them. " And often after sunset, Sir, " When it is light and fair, " I take my little... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...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 ; " And there upon the ground I sit— " I sit and sing to them.. 56 "And often after sunset, Sir,. " When it is light and fair, " I take... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pages
...knit, " My 'kerchief there I hem ; " And there upon the ground I sit— " I sit and sing to them. 56 " And often after sunset, Sir, " When it is light and fair, " I take my little pon-inger, " And eat ray supper there. " The first that died was little Jane ; " In bed she moaning... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...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 ; " And there upon the ground I sit — " I sit and sing to them.. " And often after sun-set, Sir, " When it is light and fair, " I take... | |
 | William Burdon - 1805 - 108 pages
...maid reply'd, "Twelve fteps or more from my mother's door, And they are fide by fide. My ftockiags there I often knit, My 'kerchief there I hem ; And there upon the ground I fit— I fit and fmg to them. And often after funfet, Sir,. When it is light and fair,I take my little... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...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 ; And there upon the ground I sit — I sit and sing to them. And often after sun-set, Sir, When it is light and fair, J take my h'ttle... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...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 ; And there upon the ground I sit — I sit and sing to them, And often after sun-set, Sir, When it is light and fair, I tajce my little... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 378 pages
...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 ; And there upon the ground I sit — I sit and sing to them. And often after sun-set, Sir, When it is light and fair, I take my little... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pages
...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, " And there upon the ground I sit, " I sit and sing to them ; " And often after supper, sir, " When it is light and fair, *' I take my... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...stockings there I often knit, My kerchief there I hem; And there upon the ground I sit — I sit and sing to them. And often after sun-set, Sir, When it is...take my little porringer, And eat my supper there. So in the church-yard she was laid; And when the grass was dry, Together round her grave we played,... | |
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