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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. "
The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects - Page 148
by Allan Cunningham - 1830
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Spirit of the English Magazines

1824 - 984 pages
...genius. 'THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER. ' ' When my Mother died, I WSB very young, And my Father sold me, white yet my tongue Could scarcely cry, Weep ! weep! weep ¡ So your chimneys I sweep, and In soot I sleep. 'There's little Tom Toddy, who cried whm bis head, That curl'd like a laiab's...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 21; Volume 39

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1824 - 608 pages
...of a " maid in Bedlam in the spring;" but it is the madness of genius. « THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER. • When my Mother died, I was very young, And my Father...scarcely cry, Weep ! weep ! weep ! So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep. ' There's Ihde Tom Toddy, wjto cried when bis fcead, That curl'd like a...
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Stories from My Attic

Horace Elisha Scudder - 1896 - 300 pages
...to love it, because he knew that God did too. Here are some lines of his upon THE CHIMJTEY-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 his...
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Hone's Popular Works and Everlasting Calendar, Volume 2

William Hone - 1826 - 876 pages
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The Every-day Book: Or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports ...

William Hone - 1827 - 858 pages
...Mr. Charles Lamb, from a very rare and curioui little work, Mr. Blake's " Songs of Innocence." AVhen my mother died I was very young, And my father sold...me, while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry, " Weep I weep 1 weep !" So your chimnies I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Toddy, who cried...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and ..., Volume 2

Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 410 pages
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The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of ..., Volume 2

William Hone - 1830 - 868 pages
...Communicated by Mr. Charles Lamb, from a very rare and curioiu little work, Mr. Blake's " Songs of Innocence." When my mother died I was very young, And my father...my tongue Could scarcely cry, " Weep ! weep ! weep 1" So your chimnies I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Toddy, who cried when his head,...
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The every-day book and table-book; or, Everlasting calendar of ..., Volume 2

William Hone - 1837 - 936 pages
...Communicated by Mr. Charles Lamb, from a very rare and curioiu little work, Mr. Blake's " Songs of Innocence." When my mother died I was very young, And my father...me, while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry, " Weep I weep ! weep !" So your chimnies I sweep, and in soot I slt-ep. There's little Tom Toddy, who cried...
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The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of ..., Volume 1

William Hone - 1837 - 874 pages
...Conmniiicatcd by Mr. Charles Lamb, from a very rare omd mriout little work, Mr. Blake's " Songs of Innocence." When my mother died I was very young, And my father...me, while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry, " Weep ! weep'l weep I" So your rhimnies I sweep, and in soot I sleep. . There's little Tom Toddy, who cried...
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Voices of the True-hearted

1846 - 302 pages
...the stones ; Tho' a pauper, he's one whom his Maker yet owns ! THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER. RY WILLIAM BLARE. When my mother died, I was very young, And my father...yet my 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 his...
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