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Page 38
... STREET I SAW with open eyes Singing birds sweet Sold in the shops For the people to eat , Sold in the shops of Stupidity Street . I saw in vision The worm in the wheat , And in the shops nothing For people to eat ; Nothing for sale in ...
... STREET I SAW with open eyes Singing birds sweet Sold in the shops For the people to eat , Sold in the shops of Stupidity Street . I saw in vision The worm in the wheat , And in the shops nothing For people to eat ; Nothing for sale in ...
Page 133
... Street- Where any one playing on pipe or tabor Was sure for the future to lose his labour . Nor suffered they hostelry or tavern To shock with mirth a street so solemn ; But opposite the place of the cavern They wrote the story on a ...
... Street- Where any one playing on pipe or tabor Was sure for the future to lose his labour . Nor suffered they hostelry or tavern To shock with mirth a street so solemn ; But opposite the place of the cavern They wrote the story on a ...
Page 166
... Street ; a bed , Four cobwebbed walls . But all day long A time is singing in his head Of youth in Gloucester lanes . He hears The wind among the barley - blades , The tapping of the woodpeckers On the smooth beeches , thistle - spades ...
... Street ; a bed , Four cobwebbed walls . But all day long A time is singing in his head Of youth in Gloucester lanes . He hears The wind among the barley - blades , The tapping of the woodpeckers On the smooth beeches , thistle - spades ...
Contents
Editors Introduction | 15 |
From Songs of Innocence William Blake | 29 |
Raptures W H Davies | 35 |
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ALFRED TENNYSON beneath birds boughs breast cold cried Daffodil Dan'l Whiddon dance dead dear doth e'en earth eyes fair flocks flowers gammon gipsy golden grave gray green Greensleeves guilders Hamelin hast hath hear heart Heaven Heigho hill Jan Stewer JOHN JOHN DRINKWATER keel row Lady Street leaves live look Lord Lord Randal maid Mayor merry mind moon morning nest never night o'er pale PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Peter Gurney pipe Piper pleasure poem poet poetry poor RALPH HODGSON rats Ring ROBERT ROBERT HERRICK rose round rowley powley Samian wine Say the bells says Anthony Rowley says Rowley shade shepherd shine sing sleep smile song spinach sweet thee thing THOMAS thou tree Uncle Tom Cobbleigh W. H. DAVIES wild WILFRID WILSON GIBSON WILLIAM BLAKE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wonderful