 | John Goldthwaite - 1996 - 397 pages
...stream, and a coming forth from this baptism to do one's duty can all be found in "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, & in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head,... | |
 | William Blake - 1998 - 340 pages
...heathen, Turk or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell, There God is dwelling too. 20 The Chimney-Swceper When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry, Veep weep weep weep'. So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried... | |
 | Stephen Bygrave - 1996 - 364 pages
...carried you past a detail that on re-reading might stop you short: the word 'sold' in the first stanza: 'When my mother died I was very young/ And my father sold me ... '. The child exists at once within an exploitative economic context. With hindsight it is shocking... | |
 | Gary Westfahl, George Edgar Slusser - 1999 - 248 pages
...child, he cherishes the dream of a fellow sweeper and offers a pathetic hope for a heavenly father: When my mother died I was very young, And my father...scarcely cry "'weep! 'weep! 'weep!" So your chimneys I sweep, & in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head That curl'd like a lamb's... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...hear. Songs of Innocence ( 1 789 1 introduction 13 When my mother died I was very young, And my lather sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry "weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot 1 sleep. Songs o/ Innocence ( 1 789) 'The Chimney Sweeper'... | |
 | Barbara Korte, Ralf Schneider, Stefanie Lethbridge - 2000 - 360 pages
...as children's verse at the same time as impressing us with a sense of hurt that cannot be forgotten: When my mother died I was very young. And my Father...my tongue Could scarcely cry '"weep! 'weep! 'weep! "weep!" So your chimneys 1 sweep, & in soot I sleep. 12 Blake's chimney sweeper, still young. remembers... | |
 | Douglas Jones - 2000 - 88 pages
...She opens her eyes.) "The Chimney Sweeper." (She shows it to THE GOVERNESS, who smiles. FLORA reads.) 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. MILES. I know one about chimneys: Eaper, Weaper,... | |
 | Pat Rogers - 2001 - 580 pages
...Sweeper', Blake faces one of the social outrages of his day, the use of little boys as chimney sweeps. When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yer my tongue. Could scarcely cty weep weep weep weep, So yout chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.... | |
 | William Blake - 2003 - 262 pages
...1794 VIEW 14R: Plate 19 Where Mercy, Love & Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. The Chimney Sweeper When my mother died I was very young, And my father...while yet my tongue, Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep. Theres little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head,... | |
 | Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee, Peter J. Kitson - 2004 - 354 pages
...the Chimney Sweeper's Friend too, and excerpted from it the most profound poem of all on the subject. When my mother died I was very young, And my father...tongue, Could scarcely cry, 'Weep! weep! weep!' So your chimnies I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Toddy,69 who cried when his head, That was... | |
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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. 
