 | England - 1847 - 788 pages
...taken from our own countryman Blake, artist and poet, and a man of somewhat kindred nature : — * " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a clond I saw a child, And he langhing said to me — ' Pipe a song about a lamb ;' So I piped with merry... | |
 | Fashion - 1867 - 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 cloud I saw a child, And he, laughing, said to me : " ' Pipe a song about a lamb 1' So I piped with... | |
 | 1882 - 492 pages
...Innocence " he gives us the fable or story telling the reason of his writing. He is in the green fields: " 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 ;' 80 I piped with merry... | |
 | Scotland - 1847 - 818 pages
...from our own countryman Blake, artist and poet, and a man of somewhat kindred nature :— * • <£ 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... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - Katahdin, Mount (Me.) - 1848 - 668 pages
...of her singing. Like Correggio, Jenny Lind recalled in their hest meaning, the verses of Blake : " Piping down the valleys wild. Piping songs of pleasant glee. On a rock 1 saw a child; And he entiling said to me, ' Pipe a sone ahon': a lamh ; ' Bo I piped with merry... | |
 | Literature - 1867 - 746 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 cloud I saw a child, And he, laughing, said to me : " ' Pipe a song about a lamb I* So I piped with... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...KENT AND Co., and COCKS AND Co. POETRY FOB SCHOOL AND HOME. 1. INTRODUCTION TO " SONGS OF INNOCENCE." 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... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
...ear? Down let him lie, And slumbering die, And change his soul for harmony. JOHK DlSYDEN. THE PIPER. 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... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 pages
...spotted snakes with double tongue 257 Young Henry was as brave a youth 183 's <§arlanb from THE PIPER 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... | |
 | 302 pages
...home let us hasten while yet we can see, For no watchman is waiting for you and for me. THE PIPER. 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... | |
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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; 
