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CONTENTS.
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Night. The Sun descending in the West | 38 |
Spring. Sound the flute! | 40 |
Nurse's Song. When the voices of children are heard on the green | 41 |
Infant Joy. I have no name | 42 |
A Dream. Once a dream did weave a shade | 43 |
On Another's Sorrow. Can I see another's woe | 44 |
The Voice of the Ancient Bard. Youth of delight! come hither | 46 |
SONGS OF EXPERIENCE.
Introduction. Hear the voice of the bard | 47 |
Earth's Answer. Earth raised up her head | 48 |
The Clod and the Pebble. Love seeketh not itself to please | 49 |
Holy Thursday. Is this a holy thing to see | 50 |
The Little Girl Lost. In futurity | 51 |
The Little Girl Found. All the night in woe | 53 |
The Chimney Sweeper. A little black thing among the snow | 55 |
The Sick Rose. O Rose, thou art sick ! | 56 |
Nurse's Song. When the voices of children are heard on the green | 56 |
The Fly. Little Fly | 57 |
The Angel. I dreamt a dream ! What can it mean? | 58 |
The Tiger. Tiger, tiger, burning bright | 59 |
My Pretty Rose Tree. A flower was offered to me | 60 |
Ah! Sunflower. Ah! Sunflower! weary of time | 60 |
The Lily. The modest rose puts forth a thorn | 61 |
The Garden of Love. I laid me down upon a bank | 61 |
The Little Vagabond. Dear mother, dear mother, the church is cold | 62 |
London. I wander through each charter'd street | 63 |
The Human Abstract. Pity would be no more | 64 |
Infant Sorrow. My mother groaned, my father wept | 65 |
Christian Forbearance. I was angry with my friend | 65 |
A Little Boy Lost. Nought loves another as itself | 66 |
A Little Girl Lost. Children of the future age | 67 |
A Cradle Song. Sleep, sleep, beauty bright | 68 |
The Schoolboy. I love to rise on a summer morn | 69 |
To Tirzah. Whate'er is born of mortal birth | 70 |
THE BOOK OF THEL | 71 |
Introductory Note | 76 |
The Birds. Where thou dwellest, in what grove | 78 |
Broken Love. My spectre around me night and day | 79 |
The Two Songs. I heard an angel singing | 81 |
The Defiled Sanctuary. I saw a chapel all of gold | 82 |