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Home: Poetry: William Blake: Laughing Song
| LAUGHING SONG |
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a poem by William Blake
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- 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 green hill laughs with the noise of it;
- When the meadows laugh with lively green,
- And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene,
- When Mary and Susan and Emily
- With their sweet round mouths sing "Ha, ha he!"
- When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
- Where our table with cherries and nuts is spread:
- Come live, and be merry, and join with me,
- To sing the sweet chorus of "Ha, ha, he!"
| "Laughing Song" is reprinted from Songs of Innocence and Experience. William Blake. London: Basil Montague Pickering, 1866. |
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