...from my sight, And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen ; And I stained the water clear And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. William Blake. r A Sleeping Child Lips, lips, open ! Up comes a little bird that lives inside, Up comes...

...away! r Sir Walter Scott. Vlil STORY TIME rr r And I made a rural pen; And I stained the water clear And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. William Blake. STORY TIME rr r The Fairy Folk Come cuddle close in daddy's coat Beside the fire so...

...my sight ; • And I plucked a hollow reed ; And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. — Introduction to Songs of Innocentt, TO A LAMB. Little lamb, who made thee ? Dost thou know who...

...from my sight ; And I pluck'da hollow reed, "And I made a rural pen, And I stain'd the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear." Nothing could be more child-like than the following poem, called The Lamb: "Little lamb, who made thee,...

...from my sight; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear. The Song of the Chimney Sweeper is a sort of forerunner of Wordsworth's At the Corner of Wood Street...

...vanish'd from my sight, And I pluck'da hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stain'd the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. What, then, is poetry? Many things. Poetry is a grinning boy mischievously creating satire in a comic...

...Thursday'), images which are not static artefacts, but part of a potentially continuing vital interplay ('And I wrote my happy songs/ Every child may joy to hear'); in those which construct the 'Divine Vision' out of negative 'facts' ('The Chimney Sweeper', 'Holy...

...vanish'd from my sight. And I pluck'da hollow reed. And I made a rural pen, And I stain'd the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear (7) Blake's complex relation to his writing and printing implements was not always this unconflicted,...

...writes it all out, reducing melody to mere words: And I made a rural pen, And I stain'd the water clear. And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear (7) These lines contain almost as many verbs as the rest of the poem, but with a slight modulation...

...Sungs of Experience. Aquéllas el júbilo de la niñez, cuando Blake miraba al mundo con ojos de luz: And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. En las segundas, con mirada de amargo llanto: El mundo creador de Valle Inclán es más complicado,...