So I piped, he wept to hear. 'Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer.' So I sung the same again While he wept with joy to hear. 'Piper sit thee down and write In a book that all may read — ' So he vanish'd from my sight. Macmillan's Magazine - Page 291865Full view - About this book
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...improve, And theatres arc still the scenes of Love.— AVi Piper, sit thee clown and write ID a book that all may read — So he vanish'd from my sight : And I plnek'da hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And 1 wrote my happy songs... | |
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliographical literature - 1836 - 594 pages
...sung the same again. While he wept with joy to hear. " ' Piper, sit thee down, and write In a book, that all may read.' — So he vanish'd from my sight...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." doubtful. Yet there... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...sung the same again, Ivhile he wept with jov to hear. " Piper, sit thee down and write, In a book, that all may read. " — So he vanish'd from my sight,...pluck'da hollow reed. And I made a rural pen, ' And I stain'd the water clear, And I wrote my happy songa. Every child may joy to hear. When Mary, and Susan,... | |
| 1882 - 492 pages
...the child says : " ' Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read.' So he vanish" cl from my sight, And I pluck'da hollow reed, "And I...clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear." Who is this child? Is this child nothing more than the mere fabrication of a wildly fanciful... | |
| William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. " Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all may read." So he vanish'd from my sight ;...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. WILLIAM BLAKE. SONG.... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. " Piper, sit thee down and write, In a book, that ail 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. BLAKE. 2. THE LAMB.... | |
| Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 pages
...So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. ' 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, A And I made a rural pen, And I stain'd the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may... | |
| Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - Artists - 1863 - 366 pages
...I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. ' Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all may read.' So he vanish'd from my sight,...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. THE SHEPHEIID. How... | |
| James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 pages
...songs of happy cheer." While he wept with joy to hear. " Piper, sit thee down and write, In a book that all may read." So he vanish'd from my sight;...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. ' W. Sluice. THE... | |
| Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1863 - 386 pages
...joy to hear. ' Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read. ' So he vanish'd from thy 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. W. Blake II ON MA... | |
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