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The Chimney Sweeper

From Songs of Experience

A little black thing among the snow,
Crying “'weep! 'weep,” in notes of woe!
“Where are thy father & mother? Say?”
“They are both gone up to the church to pray.

“Because I was happy upon the heath,
And smiled among the winter's snow,
They clothed me in the clothes of death,
And taught me to sing the notes of woe.

“And because I am happy & dance & sing,
They think they have done me no injury,
And are gone to praise God & his Priest & King,
Who made up a heaven of our misery.”

1. Notes
2. Reading Pointers for Sharper Insights
3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   1. Inroduction
   2. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Seven Parts
   3. Kubla Khan
4. William Blake
   1. Introduction
   2. The Lamb
   3. The Tyger
   4. The Chimney Sweeper
   5. The Chimney Sweeper
   6. A Poison Tree
5. William Wordsworth
   1. Inroduction
   2. Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798
   3. My Heart Leaps Up
   4. Ode Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
   5. The Lucy Poems
      1. Strange fits of Passion have I Known
      2. She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
      3. I travelled among unknown men
      4. Three years she grew in sun and shower
      5. A slumber did my spirit seal
6. George Gordon, Lord Byron
   1. Introduction
   2. On the castle of chillon
   3. She walk in beauty
   4. Prometheus
7. Percy Bysshe Shelley
   1. Introduction
   2. Ozymandias
   3. Ode to the West Wind
   4. Adonais
8. John Keats
   1. Introduction
   2. To Hope
   3. Ode on Melancholy
   4. Ode to a Nightingale
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