Songs of Innocence and of Experience

by William Blake

Credits: William Blake (author)

Summary

Blake's two sets of short lyrics look at the same world twice, first through a child's trusting eye with the lamb and the piper, then through experience, with the tyger, the sick rose and the chimney-sweeper's cry. Read side by side, the paired poems argue about innocence, cruelty and the God who made both.

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Chapters (49)

  1. 1. Songs of Innocence
  2. 2. Songs of Experience
  3. 3. Introduction
  4. 4. The Shepherd
  5. 5. The Echoing Green
  6. 6. The Lamb
  7. 7. The Little Black Boy
  8. 8. The Blossom
  9. 9. The Chimney-Sweeper
  10. 10. The Little Boy Lost
  11. 11. The Little Boy Found
  12. 12. Laughing Song
  13. 13. A Cradle Song
  14. 14. The Divine Image
  15. 15. Holy Thursday
  16. 16. Night
  17. 17. Spring
  18. 18. Nurse’s Song
  19. 19. Infant Joy
  20. 20. A Dream
  21. 21. On Another’s Sorrow
  22. 22. Introduction
  23. 23. Earth’s Answer
  24. 24. The Clod and the Pebble
  25. 25. Holy Thursday
  26. 26. The Little Girl Lost
  27. 27. The Little Girl Found
  28. 28. The Chimney-Sweeper
  29. 29. Nurse’s Song
  30. 30. The Sick Rose
  31. 31. The Fly
  32. 32. The Angel
  33. 33. The Tiger
  34. 34. My Pretty Rose Tree
  35. 35. Ah, Sunflower
  36. 36. The Lily
  37. 37. The Garden of Love
  38. 38. The Little Vagabond
  39. 39. London
  40. 40. The Human Abstract
  41. 41. Infant Sorrow
  42. 42. A Poison Tree
  43. 43. A Little Boy Lost
  44. 44. A Little Girl Lost
  45. 45. A Divine Image
  46. 46. A Cradle Song
  47. 47. To Tirzah
  48. 48. The Schoolboy
  49. 49. The Voice of the Ancient Bard

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