 He led me through his gardens fair, Where all his golden pleasures grow. With sweet May dews my wings were wet. And Phoebus fir'd my vocal rage; He caught me in his silken net, And shut me in his golden cage. He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing,...  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 231865Full view - About this book
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...fair s Where all his golden pleasures grow. With sweet May dews my wings were wet, And Phoebus fired my vocal rage; He caught me in his silken net, And shut me in his golden cage. 12 He loves to sit and hear me sing; Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my... | |
 | 1866 - 590 pages
...exquisite simplicity is unsurpassable : " With awor t Slay-dews my wings were wet. And Phoebus fired my vocal rage : He caught me in his silken net, And shut me in his golden rage. •- He loves tn sit and hear mo sing. Then, laughing, sits and plnys with me ; Then stretches... | |
 | Julian Hill - English poetry - 1907 - 378 pages
...From William Blake's "Songs of Innocence" With sweet May-dews my wings were wet, And Phoebus fired my vocal rage ; He caught me in his silken net, And...out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty. It would be hard to say wherein the lad showed the deeper insight — into engraving or into poetry.... | |
 | Elizabeth Godfrey - Calendars - 1908 - 460 pages
...fair Where all his golden pleasures grow. With sweet May dews my wings were wet, And Phoebus fired my vocal rage ; He caught me in his silken net, And...out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty. WILLIAM BLAKE THE MERRY GUIDE ONCE in the wind of morning I ranged the thymy wold ; The world-wide... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...his golden pleasures grow. With sweet May dews my wings were wet, And Phoebus fired my vocal rage; IO He caught me in his silken net, And shut me in his...plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, 15 And mocks my loss of liberty. INTRODUCTION TO "SONGS OF INNOCENCE" Piping down the valleys wild,... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...my brow; He led me through his gardens fair Where all his golden pleasures grow. With sweet May dews my wings were wet, And Phoebus fir'd my vocal rage;...out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty. W. Blake The Echoing Green THE Sun does arise, And make happy the skies; The merry bells ring To welcome... | |
 | George Thomas Smart - Love - 1909 - 50 pages
...gardens fair Where all his golden pleasures grow. With sweet Maydews my wings are wet, And Phoebus fired my vocal rage; He caught me in his silken net, And...out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty. WILLIAM BLAKE, 1757-1817 •I MARY MORISON O MARY, at thy window be ! It is the wish'd, the trysted... | |
 | Oswald John Fredeick Crawford - 1910 - 240 pages
...fair, Where all his golden pleasures grow. With sweet May-dews my wings were wet, And Phoebus fired my vocal rage ; He caught me in his silken net, And...out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty. William Blake. CCLIX. FREEDOM AND LOVE. When two mutual hearts are sighing For the knot there's no... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1910 - 526 pages
...Poems of William Blake (\VB Yeats), p. «3With sweet May-dews my wings were wet, And Phoebus fired my vocal rage : He caught me in his silken net, And shut me in his golden cage.1 But in the next stanza the extraordinary picturesqueness of the image strikes an " original... | |
 | Edward Thomas - English poetry - 1911 - 388 pages
...before he was fourteen, he sang of love, of his childish freedom, and then his entanglement in Love — He caught me in his silken net And shut me in his golden cage ; and his early " My silks and fine array " is upon the same theme : My silks and fine array, My smiles... | |
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