Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;' So I piped: he wept to hear. 'Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer! Littell's Living Age - Page 41848Full view - About this book
| Paul Youngquist - 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 - 1996 - 180 pages
...which lead to the writing of the 'happy songs? Why do you think the child disappears? Introduction Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...a cloud I saw a child And he laughing said to me: 5 'Pipe a song about a lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer; 'Piper, pipe that song again!' So I piped... | |
| William Blake - 2000 - 420 pages
...Wordsworth on London', Literature and History, 3, March 1976, pp. 22-3 SONGS OF INNOCENCE Introduction Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud 1 saw a child, And he laughing said to me: 'Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer.... | |
| Richard V. Teschner, Melvin Stanley Whitley - 2004 - 300 pages
...time / And while ye may, go marry; For, having lost but once your prime / You may forever tarry. 4. Piping down the valleys wild / Piping songs of pleasant...a cloud I saw a child / And he laughing said to me . . . 5. Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy... | |
| 68 pages
...sunshine ! Thanks to the rain 1 Little White Lily Is happy again. GEORGE MACDONALD The Poet and the Child PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...cloud I saw a child, And he, laughing, said to me : 21 " Pipe a song about a lamb ! " So I piped with merry cheer. "Piper, pipe that song again." So... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1872 - 718 pages
...prime ; Give me the withered leaves I chose Before in the old time. CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI. THE PIPER. PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...cloud I saw a child, And he, laughing, said to me : 44 Pipe a song about a lamb." So I piped with merry cheer. "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped;... | |
| Bernard Quaritch - 1878 - 804 pages
...DRAWINGS: 12894 A PROJECTED WORK: Original Design (considerably different from the published engraving): " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me :"— 5 verses of 4 lines each, on 1 leaf The Shepherd, a frontispiece 1 ,. An ideal Hell 1 .. —the... | |
| 1887 - 924 pages
...children's hearts. What a magic charm has his lay, that introduction to his " Songs of Innocence ! " " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And lie, laughing, said to me — "When yet I had not walked above À mile or two from my lirai, love.... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 738 pages
...compiled them into a book to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, place such a ripple of verse as this ? — " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a clond I saw a child, And he, laughing, said to me : " ' Pipe a song about a lamb I' So I piped with... | |
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