Introduction To The Songs Of Innocence

William Blake

 Piping down the valleys wild,
   Piping songs of pleasant glee,
 On a cloud I saw a child,
   And he laughing said to me:
 "Pipe a song about a Lamb!"
   So I piped with merry cheer.
 "Piper, pipe that song again;"
   So I piped: he wept to hear.
 "Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe;
   Sing thy songs of happy cheer:!"
 So I sang the same again,
   While he wept with joy to hear.
 "Piper, sit thee down and write
   In a book, that all may read."
 So he vanish'd from my sight;
   And I pluck'd a 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.

Next 10 Poems

• William Blake : Jerusalem
• William Blake : Jerusalem: England! Awake! Awake! Awake!
• William Blake : Jerusalem: I See The Four-fold Man, The Humanity In Deadly Sleep
• William Blake : Lamb, The
• William Blake : Land Of Dreams, The
• William Blake : Laughing Song
• William Blake : Lily, The
• William Blake : Little Black Boy, The
• William Blake : Little Boy Found, The
• William Blake : Little Boy Lost, The

Previous 10 Poems

• William Blake : Intorduction To The Songs Of Experience
• William Blake : Infant Sorrow
• William Blake : Infant Joy
• William Blake : If It Is True What The Prophets Write
• William Blake : I See The Four-fold Man
• William Blake : I Saw A Chapel
• William Blake : I Rose Up At The Dawn Of Day
• William Blake : I Heard An Angel
• William Blake : Human Abstract
• William Blake : How Sweet I Roam'd