 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 136 pages
...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. 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
...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. W. Slake. EDUCATIONAL WORKS, HISTORICAL READING BOOKS. BY OSCAR BROWNING, MA, KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1884 - 988 pages
...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. m. THE LITTLE BLACK BOY. MY mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O, my soul is... | |
 | 1885 - 668 pages
...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. NIGHT. THE sun descending in the west, The evening star does shine; The birds are silent in their nest,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1886 - 360 pages
...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
...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. WILLIAM BLAKE. BABY'S SHOES. THOSE little, those little blue shoes! Those shoes that no little feet... | |
 | William Blake - 1890 - 382 pages
...sit thee down and write SONGS OF INNOCENCE. And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. THE SHEPHERD. A OW sweet is the shepherd's sweet lot ! From the morn to the evening he strays ; He... | |
 | 1890 - 332 pages
...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. cxxxv. THE TIGER. TIGER, tiger, burning bright In the forest of the night, What immortal hand or eye... | |
 | 1892 - 520 pages
...vanished 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. WILLIAM BLAKE. THE CHILDLESS MOTHER. I LAY my tasks down one by one, I sit in the silence in twilight's... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1892 - 132 pages
...vanished 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. WILLIAM BLAKE. THE CHILDLESS MOTHER. I LAY my tasks down one by one, I sit in the silence in twilight's... | |
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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. 
