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When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry " 'weep! And the Angel told Tom, if he'd be a good boy,…
"The Chimney Sweeper" is a poem by William Blake, published in his 1789 collection Songs of Innocence. The poem is told from the perspective of a young chimney sweep, a boy who has been sold into labor by his father.
In these twenty-four lines of William Blake’s poem, ‘The Chimney Sweeper,’ a little boy, is telling the story of his despairing life as well as the sad tales of other chimney sweeper boys. The little boy narrates that he was very young when his mother died.
"The Chimney Sweeper" is the title of a poem by William Blake, published in two parts in Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794. The poem "The Chimney Sweeper" is set against the dark background of child labour that was prominent in England in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow. By William Blake. A little black thing among the snow, Crying "weep! 'weep!" in notes of woe! "Where are thy father and mother? say?" "They are both gone up to the church to pray. Because I was happy upon the heath, And smil'd among the winter's snow, They clothed me in the clothes of death,
"The Chimney Sweeper" is a poem by English visionary William Blake, published in Songs of Innocence and Experience (1794). It is the companion to a poem of the same name that appears in the earlier Innocence collection, and works as a kind of update on the plight of the chimney sweeper—a young boy forced to do the horrible work of cleaning ...
‘The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow’ by William Blake is a dark poem that sought to expose the horrors of child labor. In the first lines of ‘The Chimney Sweeper,’ the speaker describes a small “black thing among the snow”.
