 | Isabel Simeral - 1916 - 242 pages
...apparently "admitted" of 10 Blake pictures the child sweep in the Songs of Innocence, "The Chimney Sweeper," "When my mother died I was very young, And my father...tongue Could scarcely cry 'weep'! 'weep'! 'weep'! 'weep'! So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep." The poem was inserted in Montgomery's Chimney... | |
 | James Hastings - 1920 - 344 pages
...them. That must have been an uncomfortable life — worse than any short bed with narrow blankets. When my mother died I was very young, And my father...me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry, " Weep 1 weep ! weep ! weep !* So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Daere, who... | |
 | Leonard Southerden Wood - 1921 - 396 pages
...where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appal. THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER When my mother died I was very young. And my father...tongue Could scarcely cry ' 'weep ! 'weep ! 'weep ! 'weep ! ' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when... | |
 | Edgar Leigh Collis - 1921 - 478 pages
...coverlet (11). The words put by Blake into the mouth of the chimney sweeper are in no way false. " When my mother died I was very young, And my father...my tongue Could scarcely cry, ' Weep, weep, weep, weep,' * So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep." VI. Health and Morals of Apprentices Act.... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 426 pages
...of hope for happiness in their work is more convincing than many lines of moralizing or preachment. When my mother died I was very young, And my father...tongue Could scarcely cry " 'weep ! 'weep ! 'weep ! 'weep !" So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 424 pages
...of hope for happiness in their work is more convincing than many lines of moralizing or preachment. When my mother died I was very young, And my father...while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry " 'weep ! 'weep 1 'weep ! 'weep I" So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried... | |
 | John Lawrence Hammond, Barbara Bradby Hammond - 1923 - 336 pages
...During those hundred years Blake had written his poems (1788 and 1794) on the chimney sweep boy : " When .my mother died I was very young, And my father...my tongue Could scarcely cry, ' Weep ! Weep ! Weep ! Weep ! ' So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep." Dickens, in 1837, had written " Oliver Twist,"... | |
 | George Moore - 1924 - 152 pages
...while they are in peace, For they know when their Shepherd is nigh. WiUiam 'Blokes THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER WHEN my mother died I was very young, And my father...my tongue Could scarcely cry, "Weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. G 73 bare You know that the soot cannot spoil... | |
 | William Blake - 1925 - 558 pages
...1 1 aged] rev'rend Is I. in ISoon. wise guardians] the guardians Isl. in Moon. The Chimney Sweeper When my mother died I was very young, And my father...tongue Could scarcely cry ' 'weep ! 'weep ! 'weep ! 'weep ! ' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There 's little Tom Dacre, who cried when... | |
 | Mary Dorothy George - 1925 - 514 pages
...distortions with which our streets abounded." m CHAPTER V , PARISH CHILDREN AND POOR APPRENTICES " When my mother died I was very young, And my father...my tongue Could scarcely cry ' 'weep, 'weep, 'weep, 'weep ! ' So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep." BLAKK. ONE of the worst results of the social... | |
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WHEN my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry " 'weep ! 'weep ! 'weep ! 'weep !" So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. 
