Tiger, tiger, burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry?
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William Blake quotes & passages
3 passages by William Blake, from The Tiger and Songs of Innocence and of Experience. William Blake died in 1827, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
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English poet, painter and printmaker (1757–1827), who engraved and printed his own Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
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‘I have no name;I am but two days old.’What shall I call thee?‘I happy am,Joy is my name.’Sweet joy befall thee!Pretty joy!Sweet joy, but two days old.Sweet joy I call thee:Thou dost smile,I sing the while;Sweet joy befall thee!
William BlakeSongs of Innocence and of Experience, 1789 · Infant Joy
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Sweet dreams, form a shadeO’er my lovely infant’s head!Sweet dreams of pleasant streamsBy happy, silent, moony beams!Sweet Sleep, with soft downWeave thy brows an infant crown!Sweet Sleep, angel mild,Hover o’er my happy child!Sweet smiles, in the nightHover over my delight!Sweet smiles, mother’s smiles,All the livelong night beguiles.
William BlakeSongs of Innocence and of Experience, 1789 · A Cradle Song
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