Facsimile of the original outlines before colouring of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience

by William Blake

FACSIMILE

OF THE

ORIGINAL OUTLINES BEFORE COLOURING

OF


The Songs


OF


Innocence and of Experience


EXECUTED BY

William Blake

WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY EDWIN J. ELLIS
Author of "Fate in Arcadia"; "Seen in Three Days ; "Sancan the Bard"
and Co-Editor with W. B. Yeats of Blake's Works

LONDON
BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY, W
1893

CONTENTS.

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	PAGE
Introduction, By Edwin J. Ellis	v-xxiv
Title-page	1
Frontispiece	2
Title-Page to Part I.	3
Introduction	4
The Shepherd	5
The Echoing Green	6, 7
The Lamb	8
The Little Black Boy	9, 10
The Blossom	11
The Chimney Sweeper	12
The Little Boy Lost	13
The Little Boy Found	14
Laughing Song	15
A Cradle Song	16,17
The Divine Image	18
Holy Thursday	19
Night	20,21
Spring	22,23
Nurse's Song	24
Infant Joy	25
A Dream	26
On Another's Sorrow	27
Frontispiece to Part II.	28
Title-page to Part II.	29
Introduction	30
Earth's Answer	31
The Clod and the Pebble	32
Holy Thursday	33
The Little Girl Lost	34, 35
The Little Girl Found	35, 36
The Chimney Sweeper	37
Nurse's Song	38
The Sick Rose	39
The Fly	40
The Angel	41
The Tyger	42
My Pretty Rose Tree	43
Ah! Sunflower	43
The Lilly	43
The Garden of Love	44
The Little Vagabond	45
London	46
The Human Abstract	47
Infant Sorrow	48
A Poison Tree	49
A Little Boy Lost	50
A Little Girl Lost	51
To Tirzah	52
The Schoolboy	53
The Voice of the Ancient Bard	54

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