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" Thames' waters flow. O what a multitude they seem'd, these flowers of London town! Seated in companies they sit with radiance all their own. The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent... "
The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects - Page 181
by Allan Cunningham - 1830
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 1

1918 - 2030 pages
...there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. William Blake [1757-1827! A STORY FOR A CHILD LITTLE one, come to my knee! Hark, how the rain is pouring...
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A Book of English Verse on Infancy and Childhood

Leonard Southerden Wood - 1921 - 396 pages
...there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wind they raise to Heaven the voice...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. HOLY THURSDAY (In Songs of Experience) Is this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, Babes...
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William Blake & His Poetry

Allardyce Nicoll - 1922 - 166 pages
...there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wind they raise to Heaven the voice...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. So Blake sang, let us say, about 1 785. In 1 794 the same vision, seen with different eyes, called...
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English Childhood: Wordsworth's Treatment of Childhood in the ..., Volume 37

Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 426 pages
...there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wind they raise to Heaven the voice...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. The poem reveals Blake's ability to take a subject from common life and to depict it in lines that...
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The School of Poetry: An Anthology Chosen for Young Readers

Alice Meynell - 1923 - 260 pages
...there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands. Now, like a mighty wind, they raise to heaven the voice...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. WILLIAM BLAKE. THE TIGER TIGER, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand...
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William Blake in this World

Harold Lawton Bruce - 1925 - 288 pages
...there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wind they raise to Heaven the voice...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. The second ran: Is this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, 44Babes reduc'd to misery,...
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys & girls raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. Songs of Innocence, 1789 392 The 'Divine Image VO Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray in their distress...
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The Copeland Reader: An Anthology of English Poetry and Prose, Volume 1

Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 pages
...there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands. Now one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are...arrayed in white robes ? and whence came they ? 14 ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796) John Anderson, my Jo JOHN ANDERSON my jo, John, When we were first acquent,...
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The Manchester Quarterly, Volume 27

1908 - 434 pages
...there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls, raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. An essay might be filled with instances of Blake's poignancy when touching upon the woes of the poor...
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English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism

M. H. Abrams - 1975 - 494 pages
...there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song, Or like harmonious thunderiags the seats of Heavens among. Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor;...
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