Songs of Experience

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Songs of Experience by William Blake

Introduction (Blake, 1794)→

Songs of Experience is a 1794 poetry collection forming the second part of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Many of the poems appearing in Songs of Innocence have a counterpart in Songs of Experience with opposing perspectives of the world. The disastrous end of the French Revolution caused Blake to lose faith in the goodness of mankind, explaining much of the volume's sense of despair.— Excerpted from Songs of Experience on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

1. Introduction
2. Earth's Answer
3. The Clod and the Pebble
4. Holy Thursday
5. The Little Girl Lost
6. The Little Girl Found
7. The Chimney Sweeper
8. Nurse's Song
9. The Sick Rose
10. The Fly
11. The Angel
12. The Tyger
13. My Pretty Rose Tree
14. Ah! Sun-flower
15. The Lily
16. The Garden of Love
17. The Little Vagabond
18. London
19. The Human Abstract
20. Infant Sorrow
21. A Poison Tree
22. A Little Boy Lost
23. A Little Girl Lost
24. To Tirzah
25. The Schoolboy
26. The Voice of the Ancient Bard

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• A Divine Image (additional poem; was not included into the cycle)
• A Cradle Song (additional poem; was not included into the cycle)

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.