 Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read." So he vanished from my sight; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.  Littell's Living Age - Page 41848Full view - About this book
 | John Macmillan Brown - 1894 - 436 pages
...lamb ! ' So I piped with merry cheer ; Piper, pipe that song again ; So I piped ; he wept to hear." "And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear,...wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear. " They are all in the same simple diction and marked by the same simple childlike spirit. The new enthusiasm... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 pages
...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 plucked a hollow...wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear. THE LAMB. Little lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee, Gave thee life and bade thee feed... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 136 pages
...While he wept with joy to hear. " Piper, sit thee down and write, In a book that all may read." So he vanished from my sight, And I plucked a hollow...wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. WILLIAM BLAKE IO4 THERE are three lessons I would write, Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1895 - 290 pages
...While he wept with joy to hear. ." Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all may read." So he vanished from my sight ; And I plucked a hollow...wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. This incarnate enigma among men could manifestly be as transparent as crystal when he knew exactly... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - 1896 - 388 pages
...while he wept with joy to hear. " Piper, sit thou down and write in a book, that all may read ! " So he vanished from my sight, and I plucked a hollow...wrote my happy songs every child may joy to hear. Blate. XXVHI. CHANGES IN FEELING. IN all thinking there is a series of continual changes, the mind... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - 1896 - 312 pages
...Blake was essentially the poet of childhood and spring in all their sweet potent, indefinable charm. " And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear,...And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear,"2 gives the keynote to these songs of delight. The joy of nature is everywhere insisted on. The... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1897 - 438 pages
...While he wept with joy to hear. ' Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all may read.' So he vanished from my sight ; And I plucked a hollow...wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. William Blakr. 310 THE SICK ROSE O ROSE, thou art sick ! The invisible worm, That flies in the night,... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 220 pages
...hear. " Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read." So he vanished from my sight; IB And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen,...wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. 20 TWO SURPRISES. A workman plied his clumsy spade As the sun was going down ; The German king with... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 430 pages
...hear. " Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read." So he vanished from my sight ; 15 And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen,...wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. 20 22 TWO SURPRISES. A workman plied his clumsy spade As the sun was going down ; The German king with... | |
 | Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 394 pages
...While he wept with joy to hear. ' Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read' — So he vanished from my sight ; And I plucked a hollow...wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear. William Blake. 92 THE CUCKOO HAIL, beauteous stranger of the grove, Thou messenger of Spring ! Now... | |
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