 | Alfred Ainger - 1905 - 352 pages
...withhold his name altogether, sent Montgomery Blake's now well-known lines on the chimney-sweeper : When my mother died I was very young And my father...weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. They accordingly appear in Montgomery's little volume as " communicated by Mr. Charles Lamb from a... | |
 | William Blake - 1905 - 260 pages
...happy blossom Hears you sobbing, sobbing, Pretty, pretty robin, Near my bosom. The Chimney Sweeper my mother died I was very young, And my father sold...! ' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There 's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curl'd like a lamb's back, was shav'd : so... | |
 | William Blake - 1905 - 452 pages
...verso to the second plate of ' Spring." The Chimney Sweeper When my mother died I wal very young, 1 And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely...'weep! 'weep! 'weep!' • So your chimneys I sweep, & in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, 5 That curl'd like a lamb's back,... | |
 | William Blake - 1905 - 258 pages
...happy blossom Hears you sobbing, sobbing, Pretty, pretty robin, Near my bosom. The Chimney Sweeper my mother died I was very young, And my father sold...me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry ' 'weep ! Veep ! 'weep ! 'weep ! ' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There 's little Tom Dacre,... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1881 - 582 pages
...suddenly to a depth " deeper than ever the andante dived." The first tells of a little boy — one Tom Dacre — who " cried when his head, That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved," and to whom the speaker, a little boy sweep also, spoke reassuringly : " And so he was quiet, and that... | |
 | William Blake - 1906 - 596 pages
...pretty Robin, Near my Bosom. THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER WHEN my mother died I was very young, And my rather sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry **Weep ! /weep ! weep 1 Veep ! ' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There 'u little Tom Dacre, who cried when... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1909 - 444 pages
...Blake " the most extraordinary man of his age." 131 : 15. The peep-peep, etc. Blake's poem opened : " When my mother died I was very young, And my father...tongue Could scarcely cry, ' Weep ! weep ! weep ! weep ! ' " i3i:29. fauces Averai. The jaws of Avernus, Hell; Virgil's Mneid, VI., 201. 132: 11. kibed. Chafed,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1881 - 918 pages
...suddenly to a depth " deeper than ever the andante dived." The first tells of a little boy — one Tom Dacre — who " cried when his head, That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved," and to whom the speaker, a little boy sweep also, spoke reassuringly : i88i. WILLIAM BLAKE. " And so... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher - 1923 - 506 pages
...Coningsby, viii. 6. Blake's poems, 'A little black thing among the snow', and the better known one, When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me when yet my tongue Could scarcely cry ' 'Weep, 'weep, 'weep, 'weep,' So your chimneys I sweep and in... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 1334 pages
...Or bless the mellowing year, When the blasts of winter appear ? W. Blake 14.8. The Chimney Sweeper my mother died I was very young, And my father sold...Could scarcely cry ' weep ! 'weep ! 'weep ! 'weep 1 ' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head,... | |
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When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry 
