 | Pierre Berger - 1914 - 444 ページ
...its simplicity and its childlike faith, and 'almost reminds us of one of the New Testament parables. When my mother died I was very young, And my father...tongue Could scarcely cry " 'Weep ! 'weep ! 'weep 1 'weep ! " So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. 1 Songs of Innocence : The Little Boy Found.... | |
 | William Blake - 1914 - 554 ページ
...Moon. 1 1 aged] rev'rend Isl. in Moon. wise guardians] the guardians Isl. in Moon. The Chimney Sweeper When my mother died I was very young, And my father...me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry ' 'weep ! Veep ! 'weep ! Veep ! J So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There 's little Tom Dacre,... | |
 | Isabel Simeral - 1916 - 242 ページ
...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...'weep'! So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep." The poem was inserted in Montgomery's Chimney Sweepers' Friend (p. 343), under the following heading—"Communicated... | |
 | James Hastings - 1920 - 344 ページ
...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 ページ
...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...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... | |
 | Edgar Leigh Collis - 1921 - 478 ページ
...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...* So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep." VI. Health and Morals of Apprentices Act. 1802.—We now come to the Act passed in 1802, which has... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 420 ページ
...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...like a lamb's back, was shaved : so I said "Hush, Tom I never mind it, for when your head's bare You know that the soot cannot spoil .your white hair." And... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 424 ページ
...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 ページ
...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...! ' So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep." Dickens, in 1837, had written " Oliver Twist," with the vivid scene where Oliver just escapes apprenticeship... | |
 | George Moore - 1924 - 152 ページ
...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...'weep!' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. G 73 bare You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.' And so he was quiet, and that very... | |
| |
When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry 
