 | George Moore - English poetry - 1924 - 206 pages
...and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty. William Blake 'l HAVE no name: I am but two days old. ? What shall...dost smile, I sing the while, Sweet joy befall thee! William Blake WHEN the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling Stream runs laughing... | |
 | Mrs. Olive Margaret (Day) Mowat - English language - 1926 - 124 pages
...oyster boil toy oilcloth toil annoy oiler voice joy The boy's toys were spoilt by the boiling oil. "I have no name, I am but two days old." —What shall...dost smile: I sing the while, Sweet joy befall thee! — BLAKE. OU as in THOU The sound may be represented by: ou — thou ow — vow EXERCISES The sound... | |
 | Osbert Burdett - Authors, English - 1926 - 216 pages
...conveyed and false sentiment avoided is miraculous. There is nothing quite to equal "Infant Joy" anywhere: "I have no name : I am but two days old." What shall..."I happy am, Joy is my name." Sweet joy befall thee ! "The Lamb", the "Laughing Song", the almost monosyllabic lines to "Spring", which seem as if they... | |
 | Edmondstoune Duncan - Ballads, English - 1927 - 634 pages
...kiss him, and give him both drink and apparel. From Songs of Experience, 1795. 492. Joy is my Name I HAVE no name : I am but two days old." What shall...dost smile, I sing the while ; Sweet joy befall thee ! Set by Thomas F. Dunhill under the title Infant Joy (Boosey). 493. Memory, hither come MEMORY, hither... | |
 | Edmondstoune Duncan - Ballads, English - 1927 - 658 pages
...him both drink and apparel. From Songs of Experience, 1795. 492. Joy is my Name " T HAVE no name : AI am but two days old." What shall I call thee ? " I...dost smile, I sing the while ; Sweet joy befall thee ! Set by Thomas F. Dunhill under the title Infant Joy (Boosey). 493. Memory, hither come « MEMORY,... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. 20 1789 INFANT JOY le 6 Sweet joy befall thee! Pretty joy! Sweet joy, but two days old. Sweet joy I call thee: Thou dost... | |
 | Harriet Monroe - American poetry - 1928 - 428 pages
...Elizabethan simplicity. No fifteenth-century carol is more dewy than this brief lyric, In/ant Joy: "I have no name — I am but two days old." What shall...smile — I sing the while, Sweet joy befall thee! And here is The Shepherd: How sweet is the shepherd's sweet lot! From the morn to the evening he strays;... | |
 | Jacomina Korteling - Mysticism in literature - 1928 - 196 pages
...babe of two days old has no feeling bwt joy, joy in the gift of life, of which it is yet unconscious. 'I have no name: I am but two days old.' What shall...dost smile, I sing the while, Sweet joy befall thee!" How prettily expressive it is of the smiling happiness, the im-| pulsive gladness of the little one.... | |
 | Geoffrey H. Hartman - Education - 1985 - 244 pages
...the womb of self-knowledge the child has opened: named Joyce in order to be nicknamed Joy—"Pretty joy! / Sweet joy but two days old. / Sweet joy I call thee," as Blake writes in "Infant Joy" in the Songs of Innocence—she is the fruit of an entanglement in... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...HelP; NAEL-2; NAWM-2; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-2; OBEV; OBNC; OxBChV; PoE; PoEL-4; PoNe; TrGrPo Infant Joy 93 eaven repine. Though o'er our heads the frozen Pleiads shine: FaPON; GoJo; NAEL-2; NAs; OxBSP; PoLF; TEP Night 100 The sun descending in the west, The evening star... | |
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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. 
