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The Eclectic Review - Page 77
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An Anthology of Pure Poetry: Edited with an Introduction

George Moore - 1924 - 206 pages
...sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curl'd like a lamb's back, was shav'd: so I said, 'Hush, Tom! never mind it, for, when your head's bare jYou know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.' And so he was quiet, and that very night, As...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 62

1859 - 864 pages
...out, "\Vccp, 'weep, 'weep, So your chiranics I clean, and on soot I sleep. " There's little Tom Docre, who cried when his head, That curled like a lamb's...mind it, for when your head's bare, You know that tlio soot cannot spoil your white hair. "And so ho was quiet ; and, that very night, As Tom he was...
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Vision and Disenchantment: Blake's Songs and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

Heather Glen, Senior Lecturer Faculty of English Cambridge University and Fellow of New Hall Heather Glen - 1983 - 420 pages
...comforted: Theres little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head That curl'd like a lambs back, was shav'd, so I said. Hush Tom never mind it, for when your head's...You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair. It is a moment which is recollected, sardonically, in his notebook epigram of the early 1790s: 'Why...
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Canti dell'innocenza e dell'esperienza

William Blake - 1993 - 206 pages
...sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curl'd like a lamb's back, was shav'd: so I said «Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your...cannot spoil your white hair». And so he was quiet, & that very night As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight! That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe,...
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The Columbia History of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 pages
...Tom Dacre "when his head / That curl'd like a lamb's back, was shaved" seems close to a sick joke — "for when your head's bare / You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair" (5-8). Similarly off-putting is the Angel's injunction to Tom that "if he'd be a good boy, / He'd have...
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William Blake: Selected Poems

William Blake - 1995 - 136 pages
...sleep. Theres little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head That curl'd like a lambs back, was shav'd, so I said: Hush Tom never mind it, for when your head's...cannot spoil your white hair. And so he was quiet, &. that very night, As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight, That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe...
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Mythic Archetypes in Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Blakean Reading

Richard R. O'Keefe - 1995 - 252 pages
...his head That curl'd like a lambs back, was shav'd, so I said. Hush Tom never mind it, for when you head's bare, You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair. And so he was quiet, & that very night As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight, That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe,...
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Selected Poetry

William Blake - 1998 - 340 pages
...soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved, so I said: "Hush Tom, never mind it, for when...hair.' And so he was quiet, and that very night, As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight: That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned and Jack, Were alt...
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Blake: Selected Poems

William Blake - 1996 - 180 pages
...soot I sleep. 5 There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved; so I said, 'Hush, Tom! Never mind it, for...white hair.' And so he was quiet, and that very night, 10 As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight! That thousands of sweepers - Dick, Joe, Ned and Jack...
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The Natural History of Make-Believe: A Guide to the Principal Works of ...

John Goldthwaite - 1996 - 397 pages
...sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curl'd like a lamb's back, was shav'd: so I said "Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your...cannot spoil your white hair." And so he was quiet, & that very night, As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight! That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe,...
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