SONGS OF EXPERIENCE (With Illuminated Manuscript). Уильям Блейк

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       William Blake

      SONGS OF EXPERIENCE

      (With Illuminated Manuscript)

      

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       [email protected] 2017 OK Publishing ISBN 978-80-272-3320-5

      Table of Contents

       Introduction

       Earth's Answer

       The Clod & the Pebble

       Holy Thursday

       The Little Girl Lost

       The Little Girl Found

       The Chimney Sweeper

       Nurses Song

       The Sick Rose

       The Fly

       The Angel

       The Tyger

       My Pretty Rose Tree

       Ah! Sun-flower

       The Lilly

       The Garden of Love

       The Little Vagabond

       London

       The Human Abstract

       Infant Sorrow

       A Poison Tree

       A Little Boy Lost

       A Little Girl Lost

       To Tirzah

       The School Boy

       The Voice of the Ancient Bard

      Songs of Experience is the second part of Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (first published in 1794), an expansion of Blake's first illuminated book Songs of Innocence. The poems and artwork were reproduced by copperplate engraving and colored with washes by hand. Blake republished Songs of Innocence and Experience several times, often changing the number and order of the plates. The spellings, punctuation and capitalizations are those of the original Blake manuscripts.

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      Hear the voice of the Bard!

      Who Present, Past, & Future sees

      Whose ears have heard,

      The Holy Word,

      That walk'd among the ancient trees.

      Calling the lapsed Soul

      And weeping in the evening dew:

      That might controll,

      The starry pole;

      And fallen fallen light renew!

      O Earth O Earth return!

      Arise from out the dewy grass;

      Night is worn,

      And the morn

      Rises from the slumberous mass.

      Turn away no more:

      Why wilt thou turn away

      The starry floor

      The watry shore

      Is giv'n thee till the break of day

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      Earth rais'd up her head,

      From the darkness dread & drear.

      Her light fled:

      Stony dread!

      And her locks cover'd with grey despair.

      Prison'd on watry shore

      Starry Jealousy does keep my den

      Cold and hoar

      Weeping o'er

      I hear the Father of the ancient men

      Selfish father of men

      Cruel jealous selfish fear

      Can delight

      Chain'd in night

      The virgins of youth and morning bear.

      Does spring hide its joy

      When buds and blossoms grow!

      Does the sower!

      Sow by night?

      Or the plowman in darkness plow!

      Break this heavy chain,

      That does freeze my bones around

      Selfish! vain!

      Eternal bane!

      That