 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 : ' So I piped ; he wept to hear.  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 231865Full view - About this book
 | William Blake - English poetry - 1893 - 324 pages
...OF INNOCENCE. INTRODUCTION. v PIPING down the valleys wild, -*• Piping songs of pleasant glee, k On a cloud I saw a child, *• And he laughing said to me : ' ' Pipe a song about a Lamb 1 ' ' So I piped with merry cheer. i* ' Piper, pipe that song again ; ' e So I piped : he wept to hear.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 464 pages
...Ml to me. INTRODUCTION TO "SONGS OF INNOCENCE" (1789). Piping down the valleys wild, \ Piping aongl of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child. And he laughing said to me: 44 Pipe a song about a lamb : " So 1 piped with merry cheer. " Piper, pipe that song again : " So I... | |
 | James Baldwin - English poetry - 1894 - 376 pages
...And when this dust falls to the urn, Into that state I came, return. — HENRY VAUGHAN. 5THE PIPER. 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... | |
 | John Macmillan Brown - English literature - 1894 - 436 pages
...of a fine lyric ear. They flow with all the spontaneity ascribed to them in the Introduction ; — " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...pipe that song again ; So I piped ; he wept to hear." "And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 pages
...strings do scarcely move, The sound is forced, the notes are few. [From Songs of Inmcenct.] INTRODUCTION. Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...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... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - Art - 1895 - 290 pages
...in Songs of Experience. The keynote of the former is admirably struck in the introductory poem : — Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...laughing said to me. " Pipe a song about a Lamb ! " So 1 piped with merry cheer. " Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped ; he wept to hear. "Drop thy pipe,... | |
 | James Baldwin - Readers - 1897 - 430 pages
...empty wallet, and it was torn from 10 top to bottom. He was as poor as before. 21 THE PIPER'S SONG. Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...laughing, said to me, " Pipe a song about a lamb," 5 So I piped with merry cheer. "Piper, pipe that song again," So I piped, he wept to hear. " Drop thy... | |
 | James Baldwin - Children's poetry - 1897 - 430 pages
...his empty wallet, and it was torn from 10 top to bottom. He was as poor as before. THE PIPER'S SONG. Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...laughing, said to me, " Pipe a song about a lamb," 5 So I piped with merry cheer. "Piper, pipe that song again," So I piped, he wept to hear. " Drop thy... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1897 - 496 pages
...ein kind, das ihn auffordert, seine (des kindes) lieder niederzuschreiben : Piping down the valley wild Piping songs of pleasant glee On a cloud I saw a child. (p. l). Auch ein gedieht, betitelt: The Voice of the ancient B ard , erinnert uns in seiner ersten... | |
 | Mowbray Morris - English poetry - 1898 - 394 pages
...awhile ! And I will come again, my Luve, Tho' it were ten thousand mile. Robert Burns. 91 THE PIPER 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 thee down and write In a book that... | |
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