 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;  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 291865Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1881 - 632 pages
...do scarcely move, The-sound is forced, the notes are few. [From Songs of Innocence.] INTRODUCTION. Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...pipe that song again :' So I piped ; he wept to hear. 'Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read'— So he vanished from my sight; And I... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 626 pages
...do scarcely move, The sound is forced, the notes are few. [From Songs of Innocence."} INTRODUCTION. Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...Piper, pipe that song again : ' So I piped ; he wept to hear.'Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read ' — So he vanished from my sight... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...Till onr grief is fled and gone, He doth sit by us and moan. INTRODUCTION TO " SONGS OF INNOCENCE." ght, They h langbiug, said to me : "Pipe a song about a lamb." So I piped with merry cheer. " Piper, pipe that... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry, English - 1882 - 376 pages
...CLXXI The Age of Children Happiest CLXXII The Noble Nature CLXXIII The Rainbow THE CHILD AND THE PIPER Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...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 all may read.'... | |
 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 pages
...know — But where is County Guy ! Sir W. Scott. THE PIPER. (Introduction to ' Songs of Innocence.') PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...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... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1882 - 632 pages
...single specimen of his poems, the Introduction to his Songs of Innocence, is all that we can give: Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer:" So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. " Piper, sit thco down and write In a book that... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...Till our grief is fled and gone, He doth sit by ns and moan. INTRODUCTION TO " SONGS OF INNOCENCE." h hall Sat Brunswick's fated chieftain : lio did hear That souud the first amid the festival, A langhing, said to me : "Pipe a song about a lamb." So I piped with merry cheer. "Piper, pipe that song... | |
 | William James Linton - English poetry - 1883 - 396 pages
...winds and tempests beat ! Then down I'll lie as, cold as clay, True love doth pass away. THE PIPER. Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...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 290 WILLIAM BLAKE. And I made... | |
 | English lyrics - English poetry - 1883 - 330 pages
...enjoyed in you ! The languid strings do scarcely move, The sound is forced, the notes are few. CXXXIV. "PIPING down the valleys wild, -"- Piping songs of...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 all may read... | |
 | Queen - Nursery rhymes, English - 1883 - 80 pages
...worrie, worrie, gnash, gnash" Said she, said she. THE CHILD AND THE PIPER. 59 THE CHILD AND THE PIPER. PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...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 all may read"... | |
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