 | 1872 - 692 páginas
...Blake's " Songs of Innocence " are full of a strange weird simplicity, like the speech of some ellin child. They open thus : — Piping down the valleys...simple audacious beauty and quaintness of effect, ia without a peer in our language. Old and gray in years, he was a cherub in soul. He was utterly devoid... | |
 | Coventry Kersey D. Patmore - 1873 - 396 páginas
...piped, he wept to hear. ' Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer.' So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. '...wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. W. Blake II ON MA Y MORNING Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east,... | |
 | William Blake - 1874 - 194 páginas
...SHOWING THE TWO CONTRARY STATES OF THE HUMAN SOUL. SONGS OF INNOCENCE. [1789.] INTRODUCTION. IPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee,...wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. THE SHEPHERD. HOW sweet is the shepherd's sweet lot ; From the morn to the evening he strays ; He shall... | |
 | Child life - 1874 - 300 páginas
..." So he vanished from my sight, And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear ; And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. — William Blake. SONG OF THE ELFIN MILLER. FULL merrily rings the millstone round, Full merrily rings... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 páginas
...— So he vanish d from my sight. And I pluck'da hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear. Blake. THE SNOW-DROP; OR, THE RESURRECriON OF THE BODY. TELL, if thou canst, how yonder flower To life... | |
 | 1906 - 730 páginas
...read." So he vanished from my sight ; And I plucked a hollow reed. And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. A new note indeed for that shallow, superficial, and intensely artificial age ! The mock pastoral died... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 páginas
...— So he vanished from my sight ; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained at must hear me : The Lamb. — From the same. Little lamb, who made thee ? Dost thou know who made thee, Gave thee life... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1877 - 136 páginas
..." So he vanished from my sight, And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear ; And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear. WILLIAM BLAKE. THE ROOKS. THE DIPHTHONGS. OI, moist, purloin', exploit', soil, spoil, noise, rejoice'.... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 242 páginas
..." So he vanished from my sight, And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural* pen, And I stained the water clear ; And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear. _ 6 — A CRADLE SONG. ITusn ! the waves are rolling in, White with foam, white with foam ; Father... | |
 | Choice poems - 1879 - 206 páginas
...AND LYRICS, INTRODUCTION. PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud 1 saw a child, And he laughing said to me : — "Pipe...wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. William Blake: 1757-1827. William Blake was an artist as well as a poet. He illustrated his own works,... | |
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Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read.' So he vanish'd from my sight; And I pluck'da hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stain'd the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. 
