Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake

Author:William Blake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of poems by William Blake showing the two contrary states of the human soul. Poems from both books have been set to music by many composers, including Ralph Vaughan Williams, Joseph Holbrooke, Sven-David Sandstrom, Benjamin Britten, Jacob ter Veldhuis, John Tavener, Jah Wobble, Tangerine Dream and others., This Urban Romantics edition includes both original books.William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Blake is considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Blake's work is characterised by expressiveness and creativity as well as many undercurrents of the philosophical and mystical nature. His most notable work includes Songs of Innocence and Experience, ISBN: 9781910150528 (paper back), IEBN: 9781910150511 (eBook).William Blake, Romantic Age, Romanticism, mystic, mysticism, poetry, songs, poetic, soul, human soul, illumination
Publisher: Urban Romantics
Published: 2014-02-17T00:00:00+00:00

‘Selfish father of men!

Cruel, jealous, selfish fear!

Can delight,

Chained 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 ploughman in darkness plough?

‘Break this heavy chain,

That does freeze my bones around!

Selfish, vain,

Eternal bane,

That free love with bondage bound.’

THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE

‘Love seeketh not itself to please,

Nor for itself hath any care,

But for another gives its ease,

And builds a heaven in hell’s despair.’

So sung a little clod of clay,

Trodden with the cattle’s feet,

But a pebble of the brook

Warbled out these metres meet:

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