 | Walter De la Mare - 1925 - 358 pages
...soot was washed off under the pump on a Saturday night. They were like Tom Dacre in the poem : . . . There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head That curled like a lamb's back was shav'd; so I said "Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare You know that the soot cannot... | |
 | Walter De la Mare - 1925 - 362 pages
...the pump on a Saturday night. They were like Tom Dacre in the poem : . . . There's little Tom Dacrc, who cried when his head That curled like a lamb's back was shav'd; so I said 'Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare You know that the soot cannot... | |
 | William Blake - 1966 - 964 pages
...me while yet 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, 5 That curl'd like a lamb's back, was shav'd : so I said "Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's... | |
 | William Blake - 1993 - 206 pages
...while yet 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, 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... | |
 | Stephen Bygrave - 1996 - 364 pages
...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. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, 5 That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved; so I said 'Hush, Tom! Never mind it, for when your head's... | |
 | John Goldthwaite - 1996 - 397 pages
...me while yet 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, 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... | |
 | Gary Westfahl, George Edgar Slusser - 1999 - 248 pages
...father sold me while yet my tongue Could 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 back, was shav'd: so I said "Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare... | |
 | William Blake - 2000 - 420 pages
...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. 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... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 2005 - 529 pages
...me while yet 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, That curl'd like a lambs back, was shav'd: so I said "Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare... | |
 | William Blake - 2007 - 60 pages
...father sold me while yet 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 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,... | |
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When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry 
