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
| William Blake - 1890 - 382 pages
...K; i=g ncgs of pknuit glee, On m dood I aaw m child, And he bcghiEg said to me : "Pipe a song abont a Lamb!" So I piped with merry cheer. * Piper, 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 SONGS OF INNOCENCE. And I made... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - American poetry - 1892 - 132 pages
...dainty Baby Bell Out of this world of ours! THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH. INTRODUCTION TO "SONGS OF INNOCENCE. 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."... | |
| Poetry - 1892 - 524 pages
...dainty Baby Bell Out of this world of ours! THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH. INTRODUCTION TO "SONGS OF INNOCENCE.' 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."... | |
| American poetry - 1892 - 520 pages
...Baby Bell Out of this world of ours! • THOMAS BAILEY ALDKICH. INTRODUCTION TO "SONGS OF INNOCENCE." 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."... | |
| Paul Youngquist - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 213 pages
...spirit of music. Blake opens by dramatizing an encounter between the poet and his wholly human muse. Piping down the valleys wild Piping songs of pleasant...a cloud I saw a child. And he laughing said to me. (7) This song of innocence begins as songs should, in music. In the first two lines the piper is his... | |
| William Blake - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 220 pages
...I saw a child. And he laughing said to me. Pipe a song about a Lamb : So I piped with merry chear, Piper pipe that song again — So I piped, he wept...Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe Sing thy songs of happy chear, So I sung the same again While he wept with joy to hear Piper sit thee down and write In a book... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...canst weep a tear And thy maker is not near. AWP; EnRP; FaBV; PoEL-4 Piping Down the Valleys Wild 104 's the way for Billy and me. (1. 5-8) BoTP; CH; FaPON; FaPoR; ILY; MoShBr; OBEY; OnUR; OxBChV; WiR 5 Th chear. "Piper pipe that song again" — So I piped, he wept to hear. "Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe... | |
| American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...汕eys 而ld , Pip 而gson 抨ofple 笛mt 可ee , OnacloudIsawachild, Andhelau 曲ings 伍dtome : "Pipe a song about a Lamb!" So I piped with merry...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... | |
| William Blake - Poetry - 1993 - 206 pages
...seguito per non appesantire troppo la lettura. Canti dell'innocenza (Songs of Innocence) Introduction Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...«Pipe a song about a Lamb!» So I piped with merry chear. «Piper, pipe that song again»; So I piped: he wept to hear. «Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe;... | |
| Angela Esterhammer - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 276 pages
...paradigmatic representative anecdote for the state of Innocence - and as, in its way, an act of creation: Piping down the valleys wild Piping songs of pleasant...me. Pipe a song about a Lamb; So I piped with merry chear, Piper pipe that song again So I piped, he wept to hear. Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe Sing thy... | |
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