Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake, 1794
Short poems about lambs, tigers, chimney sweeps and London streets, paired to show one world seen first with trust, then with disillusion. Readable in an evening.
William Blake
1757–1827
Blake etched the words and pictures of the Songs onto copper plates himself and coloured each printed copy by hand, so no two copies are exactly alike.
Feels like tenderness, society and faith.
Can the maker of the gentlest creature also have made the fiercest?
What the hammer? what the chain?In what furnace was thy brain?What the anvil? what dread graspDare its deadly terrors clasp?When the stars threw down their spears,And watered heaven with their tears,Did He smile His work to see?Did He who made the lamb make thee?Tiger, tiger, burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeDare frame thy fearful symmetry? Books by William Blake
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