 | English poetry - 1896 - 412 pages
...without voice or sound, Replied, ' O Lord, THOU ART.' C. Smart 0 /) CLXXX INFANT JOY ' I have no name ; T am but two days old.' —What shall I call thee ?...dost smile : I sing the while, Sweet joy befall thee ! W. Blake A CRADLE SONG CLXXXI Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming in the joys of night ; Sleep,... | |
 | James Thomson - English literature - 1896 - 502 pages
...argumentation may be read in one couplet:— "If the sun and moon should doubt They'd immediately go out." "What shall I call thee? ' I happy am, Joy is my name."...dost smile, I sing the while, Sweet joy befall thee." Five years later come the " Songs of Experience," and the singer is an older child, and even a youth,... | |
 | James Thomson - English literature - 1896 - 692 pages
...may be read in one couplet : — ' ' If the sun and moon should doubt They'd immediately go out." " What shall I call thee? ' I happy am, Joy is my name.'...dost smile, I sing the while, Sweet joy befall thee." Five years later come the "Songs of Experience," and the singer is an older child, and even a youth,... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1899 - 450 pages
...been sleeping They pour sleep on their head, And sit down by their bed. 106 INFANT JOY WILLIAM BLAKE HAVE no name; I am but two days old." — What shall...dost smile: I sing the while, Sweet joy befall thee ! 107 THE SHEPHERD WILLIAM BLAKE sweet is the shepherd's sweet lot! From the morn to the evening he... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1917 - 456 pages
...been sleeping They pour sleep on their head, And sit down by their bed. 106 INFANT JOY WILLIAM BLAKE HAVE no name ; I am but two days old." — What shall...dost smile : I sing the while, Sweet joy befall thee ! THE SHEPHERD WILLIAM BLAKE sweet is the shepherd's sweet lot! From the morn to the evening he strays... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - American poetry - 1901 - 494 pages
...seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. William Shakespeare 308 INFANT JOY " I have no name ; I am but two days old." — What...dost smile : I sing the while, Sweet joy befall thee ! William Blake A CRADLE SONG Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming in the joys of night ; Sleep, sleep... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1902 - 394 pages
...beneath, around, All Nature, without voice or sound, Replied, 'O Lord, THOU ART.' C. Smart INFANT JOY ' I have no name ; I am but two days old.' —What shall...dost smile : I sing the while, Sweet joy befall thee 1 W. Blake A CRADLE SONG CLXXXI Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming in the joys of night ; Sleep,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1902 - 406 pages
...around, All Nature, without voice or sound, Replied, 'O Lord, THOU ART.' C. Smart CLXXX INFANT JOY ' I have no name ; I am but two days old. ' —What...dost smile : I sing the while, Sweet joy befall thee ! W. Blake A CRADLE SONG CI.XXXI Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming in the joys of night ; Sleep,... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - Literature, Modern - 1902 - 546 pages
...light doth seize my brain With frantic pain. Very typical is the little song called Infant Joy , " I have no name ; I am but two days old." What shall...I happy am, Joy is my name." Sweet joy befall thee t Pretty joy 1 Sweet joy, but two days old. Sweet joy I call thee : Thou dost smile, I sing the while... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe - English literature - 1902 - 506 pages
...line-engravers. In 1782 he married 1 This seems inevitably a fragment from an Elizabethan songbook: ' Pretty joy ! Sweet joy, but two days old. Sweet joy...dost smile, I sing the while ; Sweet joy befall thee ! his idolized Kate, the daughter of a market-gardener, whom he taught to read, to colour engravings,... | |
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I have no name; I am but two days old." What shall I call thee? "I happy am, Joy is my name." Sweet joy befall thee! Pretty joy! Sweet joy but two days old. 
