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Book: Songs of Innocence

  • A Dream
    Once a dream did weave a shade
    O'er my angel-guarded bed,
    20 lines, 12 comments
  • Infant Joy
    "I have no name;
    I am but two days old."
    13 lines, 3 comments
  • Laughing Song
    When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
    And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
    14 lines, 3 comments
  • The Little Boy Lost
    "Father, father, where are you going?
    Oh do not walk so fast!
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • Night
    The sun descending in the west,
    The evening star does shine;
    49 lines, 5 comments
  • Holy Thursday (Innocence)
    Twas on a Holy Thursday their innocent faces clean
    The children walking two and two in red and blue andgreen
    13 lines
  • Spring
    Sound the flute!
    Now it's mute!
    28 lines
  • A Cradle Song
    Sweet dreams form a shade,
    O'er my lovely infants head.
    33 lines, 7 comments
  • The Blossom
    Merry, merry sparrow!
    Under leaves so green
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • The Little Boy Found
    The little boy lost in the lonely fen,
    Led by the wandering light,
    10 lines
  • The Echoing Green
    The sun does arise,
    And make happy the skies;
    31 lines, 4 comments
  • The Book of Thel
    THEL'S MOTTO
        Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?
    138 lines
  • The Lamb
    Little Lamb, who made thee?
    Dost thou know who made thee?
    21 lines, 11 comments
  • The Shepherd
    How sweet is the shepherd's sweet lot!
    From the morn to the evening he strays;
    8 lines, 2 comments
  • The Little Black Boy
    My mother bore me in the southern wild,
    And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
    29 lines, 5 comments
  • On Anothers Sorrow
    Can I see anothers woe,
    And not be in sorrow too?
    36 lines, 1 comment

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