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
| Queen - 1883 - 80 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 reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the waters clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. 60 / WOULD IF I COULD. ROBINSON... | |
| mrs. J Calbraith Lunn - 1883 - 310 pages
...turning quickly away, walked home. CHAPTER XIY. HARVEST HOME. Sol made a rural pen, And I strained the water clear : And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear. BLAKE. THE reapers were busy each day cutting down the beautiful crops of corn, and making them up... | |
| Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 136 pages
...strokes win'-ter won'-der-ing " Piper, sit them 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. BLAKE. WORD LESSON : — a-gain' hap'-py pleas'-ant stain'-ed book child clear glee PART II. Baby's... | |
| Wilhelmina Lydia Rooper - 1884 - 80 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. W. Slake. EDUCATIONAL WORKS, HISTORICAL READING BOOKS. BY OSCAR BROWNING, MA, KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.... | |
| James Thomas Fields - 1884 - 988 pages
...While he wept with joy to hear. " Piper, sit thee down and write In n 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. m. THE LITTLE BLACK BOY. MY mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O, my soul is... | |
| 1885 - 686 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. NIGHT. THE sun descending in the west, The evening star does shine; The birds are silent in their nest,... | |
| William Blake - 1885 - 330 pages
...again, 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...water clear. And I wrote my happy songs Every child my joy to hear. SHEPHERD. TT OW sweet is the ^Hepherd's s^eet lot ! *-*- From the morn to the evening... | |
| David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 pages
...again, 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 reed, And 1 made a rural pen, and I stained the water clear ; And I wrote such happy songs every child may joy... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1886 - 360 pages
...— So he vanish'd from my sight : And I pluck'da hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stain'd the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear." Another song, called " The Chimney Sweeper," is rude enough truly, but yet not without pathos : —... | |
| Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 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. BABY'S SHOES. THOSE little, those little blue shoes! Those shoes that no little feet... | |
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