 | Mark L. Greenberg - 1996 - 224 pages
...disappearance from sight" (69), anticipating the status of Tom Dacre's hair in "The Chimney Sweeper": "Hush Tom never mind it, for when your head's bare,...You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair" (E 10). "Autumn may be 'fled from our sight,' but his 'golden load' is clearly the wholeness of the... | |
 | Gary Westfahl, George Edgar Slusser - 1999 - 248 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, 8c that very night, As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight! That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe,... | |
 | William Blake - 2000 - 420 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...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 all... | |
 | Douglas Jones - 2000 - 88 pages
...FLORA (reading). 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...know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair." MILES. Truth, Truth, Nobody's daughter! Took off her clothes and jumped into the water... GOVERNESS.... | |
 | William B. Thesing - 2000 - 316 pages
...soot: 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...know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.' ("The Chimney Sweep" 5—8) Blake's use of "spoil" shows that, like Seward, he invokes coal dust and... | |
 | Kathleen Raine - 2002 - 472 pages
...lambs: There's little Tom Dacre, ivho cried when his head, That curTd like a lamb's back, was shav'd: so I said "Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your...know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair." 8 The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Experience (1789-94), detail The "soot" is the earthly mire and... | |
 | Kathleen Raine - 2002 - 472 pages
...lambs: There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curfd like a lamb's back, was shav'd: so I said "Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare Ton know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair." v:-;\vY^' :;w 8 The Chimney Sweeper from Songs... | |
 | William Blake - 2003 - 262 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,... | |
 | Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee, Peter J. Kitson - 2004 - 354 pages
...sleep. There's little Tom Toddy,69 who cried when his head, That was curl'd 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 all... | |
 | William Keach - 2004 - 216 pages
...Innocence: 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. (5-8) The irony of representing socially sanctioned violence as acceptable to one of its innocent victims... | |
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When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry 
