When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And ...
The sun descending in the west,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I ...
'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,
The children walking two and two, in red and blue and green,
Grey-headed beadles walk'd before, with wands as white ...
To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
All pray in their distress;
And to these virtues of delight
Return their ...
Sweet dreams, form a shade
O'er my lovely infant's head;
Sweet dreams of pleasant streams
By happy,...
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And...
The little boy lost in the lonely fen,
Led by the wand'ring light,
Began to cry; but God, ever nigh,
Appear'd like hi...
'Father! father! where are you going?
О do not walk so fast.
Speak, father, speak to your little boy,
Or else I sha...
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!'
So your...
Merry, merry sparrow!
Under leaves so green,
A happy blossom
Sees you, swift as arrow...
My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my soul is white;
White as an angel is the English child,
...
Little Lamb, who made thee?
Dost thou know who made thee?
Gave thee life, and bid thee feed,
...
The Sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
...
How sweet is the Shepherd's sweet lot!
From the morn to the evening he strays;
He shall follow his sheep all the day,
...
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laugh...
