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" LAUGHING SONG. WHEN the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by ; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it ; When the meadows laugh with lively green, And the... "
The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects - Page 181
by Allan Cunningham - 1830
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Blake for Babes: A Popular Illustrated Introduction to the Works of William ...

Thomas Wright - 1923 - 60 pages
...difficulties in them ! You had better start with "The Tiger"(r,) or the "Laughing Song,"(6Mn which Mary and Susan and Emily With their sweet round mouths sing Ha ! Ha ! He ! Then learn a few of Blake's wonderful sayings, such as If the sun and moon should doubt, They'd immediately...
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An Anthology of Pure Poetry: Edited with an Introduction

George Moore - 1924 - 206 pages
...old. Sweet Joy I call thee: Thou dost smile, I sing the while, Sweet joy befall thee! William Blake WHEN the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,...Emily With their sweet round mouths sing, 'Ha, ha, hel' When the painted birds laugh in the shade, Where our table with cherries and nuts is spread, Come...
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The Poetical Works of William Blake: Including the Unpublished French ...

William Blake - 1925 - 558 pages
...then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me. Laughing Song When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,...green, ; And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene, Laughing Song] In an early MS. version of this song, written between 1783 and May 1784 (see Bibliographical...
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Lyrics from the Old Song Books

Edmondstoune Duncan - 1927 - 658 pages
...Innocence, 1789 ; set for children's voices by Rutland Boughton (Novello). 496. When the green Woods laugh WHEN the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,...he ! ' When the painted birds laugh in the shade, When our table with cherries and nuts is spread : Come live, and be merry, and join with me To sing...
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Complete Writings: With Variant Readings

William Blake - 1966 - 964 pages
...meadows laugh with lively green And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene, When the greenwood laughs with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by, When Edessa, and Lyca, and Emilie, With their sweet round mouths sing ha, ha, he, When the painted Birds...
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Songs of Innocence

William Blake - 1971 - 68 pages
...Laughing When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, Sons And the dimpling stream runs laughing hy; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the...sweet round mouths sing "Ha, Ha, He!. When the painted hirds laugh in the shade. Where our tahle with cherries and nuts is spread, Come live & he merry, and...
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An Anthology of Pure Poetry

George Moore - 1973 - 194 pages
...call thee : Thou doSt smile, I sing the while, Sweet joy befall thee ! William Blake LAUGHING SONG WHEN the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,...Emily With their sweet round mouths sing, 'Ha, ha, he I' When the painted birds laugh in the shade, Where our table with cherries and nuts is spread, Come...
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Engines of Instruction, Mischief, and Magic: Children's Literature in ...

Mary V. Jackson - 1989 - 324 pages
..."The Divine Image," "Holy Thursday," and the incomparable "Laughing Song" from Innocence & Experience: When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy And the dimpling stream runs laughing by, When air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it, When the meadows...
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Blake: Selected Poems

William Blake - 1996 - 180 pages
...the sense of universal joy in this poem? What is the effect of the grasshopper's presence on this? When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,...wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it; 5 When the meadows laugh with lively green, And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene; When Mary...
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Blake's Nostos: Fragmentation and Nondualism in The Four Zoas

Kathryn S. Freeman - 1997 - 222 pages
...deceptively simple poem "The Laughing Song" exemplifies the perfect unity represented by repetition: When the green woods laugh, with the voice of joy...wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it. (E. 11, lines 1-4) The vocalization, laughter, is not language as such, but rather the human counterpart...
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