Songs of innocence and experience / compiled by Lou Burnard
| dc.contributor | Burnard, Lou Computing Service, University of Oxford |
| dc.contributor.author | Blake, William, 1757-1827 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-19T14:36:38Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-19T14:36:38Z |
| dc.date.created | 1789 |
| dc.date.issued | 1987-12-17 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1195 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/1195 |
| dc.description.abstract | In English Title from University of Oxford Text Archive records Songs of innocence first published: 1789. Songs of experience first published: 1794 Modern library of the world's best books |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Poems -- Great Britain -- th century |
| dc.subject.other | Poems |
| dc.title | Songs of innocence and experience / compiled by Lou Burnard |
| dc.type | Text |
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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
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| files.size | 52004 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1700-1799 |
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<SHEWING THE TWO CONTRARY STATES OF THE HUMAN SOUL>
<SONGS OF INNOCENCE>
<T INTRODUCTION>
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 a merry chear.
"Piper, pipe that song again;"
So I piped: he wept to hear.
"Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe;
Sing thy songs of happy chear:"
So I sung 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 wa . . .
