Innocence and Experience Flashcards
Chimney sweeper
‘weep, weep, weep, weep’
Chimney sweeper
‘curled like a lambs back’
Chimney sweeper
‘dick, joe, ned and jack
Chimney sweeper
Mother died… and my father sold me
Chimney sweeper
‘hush never mind it’
Chimney sweeper
thousands of sweepers… all locked up in coffins of black
Chimney sweeper
wash in a river and shine in the sun
Chimney sweeper
he’d have God for his father and never want joy
Chimney sweeper
if all do their duty they need not fear harm
London
Chartered street… where the chartered thames does flow
London
marks of weakness, marks of woe
London
mind-forged manicals
London
the hapless soliders sigh runs in blood down palace walls
London
and blights with plague the marriage hurst
The Shepherd
how sweet is the shepherds sweet lot?
The Shepherd
from the morn to the evening he strays
The Shepherd
he is watchful while they are in peace
The Shepherd
he hears the lambs innocent call, and he hears the ewes tender relpy
The Echoing Green
the sky-lark and thrush the birds of the bush
The Echoing Green
old john with white hair does laughs away care, sitting under the old oak amoung the old folk
The Echoing Green
till the little ones weary no more can be merry the sun does desend
The Echoing Green
round the laps of their mothers many sisters and brothers like birds in their nest
The Nurse’s song soi
when voices of children are heard on the green
The Nurse’s song soi
come home my children the sun is goen down and the dues of night have arised
