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; A History of English Literature - Page 404by E. J. Mathew - 1901 - 534 pagesFull view - About this book
| Choice poems - 1879 - 206 pages
...Shenstone ... 24 . Po^e . 25 TV* r^.-- 5». K.-VT.tV A Ix V,X-«' CHOICE POEMS AND LYRICS, 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... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 pages
...do scarcely move, The sound is forced, the notes are few. [From Songs of Innocence.] INTRODUCTION. Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer : ' So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. WILLIAM BLAKE. ' Piper, sit thee down... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 pages
...do scarcely move, The sound is forced, the notes are few. [From Songs of Innocence.] ' INTRODUCTION. Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...pipe, 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... | |
| 1880 - 296 pages
...light to-morrow. And just as many daisies As their soft hands can hold. p. 20. THE PIPER. PIPING l down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee,...pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer : " So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. " Piper, sit thee down and write In a... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 632 pages
...do scarcely move, The sound is forced, the notes are few. [From Songs, of Innocence."] INTRODUCTION. Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...piped ; he wept to hear. ' Drop thy pipe, thy happy pTpe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer : ' So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. '... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 pages
...Bane the same again, Piping down the valleys wild. Piping songs of pleasant glee, Ou a cloud 1 aaw a child. And he laughing said to me : ' Pipe a song...to hear. ' Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy tjon^a of happy cheer : ' While he wept with joy to hear. ' Piper, sit then down and write, In a book... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...— Tones that never thence depart ; For she listens — with her heart. LAMAN BLANCHARD. THE PIPER. hen 1 did speak of some distressful stroke, That my...pains a world of sighs : She swore, — in faith 1 piped with merry cheer. "Piper, pipe that song again :" So 1 piped ; he wept to hear. " Drop thy... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 pages
...'Songs of Innocence' (1789). Pining down the valleys wild, Piping Bougs 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. 1 Piper, pipe that song again : ' So I piped ; he wept to hear. ' Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Slug... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...to all, and to all a good-night !" CLEMKNT С. Моовк. INTRODUCTION то " SONGS OF INNOCENCE." — Little head and little foot Heavy laid for pleasure...half-shut Plants the shining azure ; Open-soul'd !" So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. " Piper, sit thee down and write In a... | |
| 1881 - 410 pages
...the contents of the book : — INTRODUCTION. Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleisant glee, On a cloud I saw a child. And he, laughing,...pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer. So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. Piper, sit thee down and write In a book... | |
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