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Revision:Blake QuotesTSR Wiki > Study Help > Subjects and Revision > Revision Notes > English > Blake Quotes The Little Girl Lost (I)‘And the desert wild / Become a garden mild.’ Links to Isiah – paradise, ‘the desert shall rejoice’. ‘How can Lyca sleep, / If her mother weep?’ ‘If my mother sleep, / Lyca shall not weep.’
The Little Girl Found (I)‘Pale through pathless ways / The fancied image strays’ ‘To this day they dwell / In a lonely dell’
The Lamb (I)‘Little Lamb who made thee? / Dost thou know who made thee?’ ‘He is meek and he is mild; / He became a little child.’ Lamb of God – Jesus.
On Another’s Sorrow (I)‘He doth give his joy to all. / He becomes an infant small. / He becomes a man of woe. / He doth feel the sorrow too.’ Jesus suffering for us.
The Schoolboy (I)‘Under a cruel eye outworn / The little ones spend the day / In sighing and dismay.’ ‘How can the bird that is born for joy / Sit in a cage and sing?’ ‘if buds are nipped’ ‘How shall the summer arise in joy, / Or the summer fruits appear?’
The Echoing Green (I)‘Old John with white hair / Does laugh away care, / Sitting under the oak, / Among the old folk.’ ‘And sport no more seen / On the darkening green.’
Nurse’s Song (I)‘When the voices of children are heard on the green / And laughing is heard on the hill, / My heart is at rest within my breast / And everything else is still.’
Holy Thursday (I)‘Till into the high dome of Paul’s they like Thames / waters flow.’ ‘Oh what a multitude they seemed, these flowers of / London town.’ ‘Now like a mighty wind they raise to Heaven the / voice of song’ ‘Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your / door.’
The Divine Image (I)‘To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love / All pray in their distress.’ ‘Then every man of every clime / That prays in his distress, / Prays to the human form divine’
The Chimney-Sweeper (I)‘my father sold me while yet my tongue / Could scarcely cry, ‘weep weep weep weep’.’ ‘And the angel told Tom if he’d be a good boy, / He’d have God for his father and never want joy.’ ‘So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.’
The Little Boy Lost (I)‘Speak father, speak to your little boy, / Or else I shall be lost.’
Earth’s Answer (E)‘Selfish father of men’ ‘Break this heavy chain / That does freeze my bones around.’ ‘That free love with bondage bound.’
The Clod and the Pebble (E)Clod:
Pebble:
Holy Thursday (E)‘Is this a holy thing to see,’ ‘Babes reduced to misery, / Fed with cold and usurous hand? ‘Is that trembling cry a song?’ ‘It is eternal winter there.’
The Chimney-Sweeper (E)‘They are both gone up to the church to pray.’ ‘They think they have done me no injury, / And are gone to praise God and his priest and king, / Who make up a heaven of our misery.’
Nurse’s Song (E)‘whisperings are in the dale’ ‘The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind, / My face turns green and pale.’ ‘Your spring and your day are wasted in play, / And your winter and night in disguise.’
The Sick Rose (E)‘The invisible worm / That flies in the night’ ‘Has found out thy bed / Of crimson joy, / And his dark secret love / Does thy life destroy.’
The Tiger (E)‘What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?’ ‘Did he who make the lam make thee?’
My Pretty Rose Tree (E)‘But my rose turned away with jealousy, / And her thorns were my only delight.’
The Garden of Love (E)‘And the gates of this chapel were shut, / And ‘Thou shalt not’ writ over the door’ ‘And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, / And binding with briars my joys and desires.’
The Little Vagabond (E)‘the church is cold, But the ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.’
London (E)‘I wander through each chartered street, / Near where the chartered Thames does flow, / And mark in every face I meet / Marks of weakness, marks of woe.’ ‘The mind forg’d manacles I hear’
Infant Sorrow (E)‘Into the dangerous world I leapt’ ‘Struggling in my father’s hands, / Striving against my swaddling bands, / Bound and weary I thought best / To sulk upon my mother’s breast.’
A Poison Tree (E)‘I was angry with my friend; / I told my wrath – my wrath did end.’ ‘I was angry with my foe; / I told it not – my wrath did grow.’
A Little Boy Lost (E)‘Nought loves another as itself, / Nor venerates another so, / Nor is it possible to thought / A greater than itself to know.’ ‘In trembling zeal he seized his hair.’ ‘And all admired the priestly care.’ ‘One who sets reason up for judge / Of our most holy mystery.’ ‘The weeping parents wept in vain.’ ‘They stripped him to his little shirt, / And bound him in an iron chain.’
A Little Girl Lost (E)‘Children of the future age, / Read this indignant page, / Know that in a former time / Love! sweet love! Was thought a crime.’ ‘But his loving look, / Like the holy book, / All her tender limbs with terror shook.’
CommentsThese notes are aimed at A Level English Literature students at A2 level. Originally written by crankycaz on TSR Forums. |
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