 | 1848
...taken from our own countryman Blake, artist and poet, and a man of somewhat kindred nature : — * " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer — ' So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. ' Piper, sit thee down and write, In a book that... | |
 | 1848
...of her singing. Like Correggio, Jenny Lind recalled in their hest meaning, the verses of Blake : " Piping down the valleys wild. Piping songs of pleasant glee. On a rock 1 saw a child; And he entiling said to me, ' Pipe a sone ahon': a lamh ; ' Bo I piped with merry... | |
 | 1867
...compiled them into a book to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, place such a ripple of verse as this ? — " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...laughing, said to me : " ' Pipe a song about a lamb I* So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again !' So 1 piped ; he wept to hear. " '... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1859
...happiness than mortals enjoy. The picture of Innocence is introduced with the following sweet verses. " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he, laughing, said tomePipe a song about a lamb ; So I piped with merry cheer. Piper, pipe that song again— So I piped—... | |
 | 1865
...that he shows to best advantage. Witness the following bit of simplicity : — Piping down the valleye wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child. And he, laughing, said to me : 1 Pipe a song about a Lamb ! ' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again ;' So I... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 466 páginas
...ear? Down let him lie, And slumbering die, And change his soul for harmony. JOHK DlSYDEN. THE PIPER. PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...happy pipe ; Sing thy songs of happy cheer." So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. " Piper, sit thee down and write, In a book, that... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1862 - 344 páginas
...spotted snakes with double tongue 257 Young Henry was as brave a youth 183 's <§arlanb from THE PIPER Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer.' So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. ' Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that... | |
 | Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist, William Blake - 1863 - 389 páginas
...kind, not only greatly outweigh its defects, but are also clearly separable from them.] INTRODUCTION. PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...happy pipe ; Sing thy songs of happy cheer !' So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. ' Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863
...made in the year 1820. Peter Parley. )«Btt on Animals. POEMS ON ANIMALS. THE CHILD AND THE PIPER. PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...pipe that song again," So I piped, he wept to hear. So I sang the same agam, " Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer." While he... | |
 | 1865
...the simple and easy, that he shows to best advantage. Witness the following bit of simplicity : — Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...happy pipe ; Sing thy songs of happy cheer !' So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. ' Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that... | |
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Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again; 
