#songs of experience

[blackhyena]

William Blake, plates from Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

#william blake #art #romanticism #romantic poets #romantic poetry #songs of innocence #songs of experience #18th century poetry #18th century art #quote #poetry #p

[5hrskypecalls]

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.

And I watered it in fears Night and morning with my tears, And I sunned it with smiles And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright, And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine,--

And into my garden stole When the night had veiled the pole; In the morning, glad, I see My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

- William Blake, A Poison Tree, Songs of Experience, 1974

#poetry #poem #🌸 #william blake #songs of experience

[captainpirateface]

#william blake #the tiger #the tiger (songs of experience) #songs of experience #Tyger! Tyger! Burning Bright #tyger tyger burning bright #nine inch nails #Trent Reznor #NIN #NineInchNails #burn #natural born killers #Spotify

[azukilynn]

A large flock of blackbirds spirals around before coming to rest in nearby trees. I feel a fluttering within. An often quiet, but restless muse stirs. It was as if the birds were kites. It was as if invisible strings had tugged, all at once, on some wild thing in my heart.

Azuki Lynn

#prosetry #writing #spilled ink #blackbirds #autumn #fall #muse #inspiration #longing #spiral #poetry #azukilynn #poets on tumblr #content creator #original #songs of experience #spilled soul

[unsightlythinker]

How can the bird that is born for joy,
Sit in a cage and sing.
How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing.
And forget his youthful spring.

-William Blake, The School Boy, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

#william blake #the school boy #songs of innocence #songs of experience #poem #poetry #poet #poetblr #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #writers and poets #poems and quotes #romanticism #romantic poets #the human condition #quotes #relatable quotes #education #on education #the education system #I LOVE this man… #I chose to leave the mainstream education system for a multitude of…Reasons #so this poem resonates with me on a spiritual level.

[that-mangy-mutt]

Did he who made the lamb make me?

this is based of the poems by William Blake in Songs of Innocence and of Experience (specifically “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”)

#art #digital art #poetry #william blake #the lamb #the tyger #songs of innocence #songs of experience #religious imagery

[thefoxsbookofdays]

27th January

Did he who made the lamb make thee?"

William Blake (1757 - 1827)

#tyger tyger #William Blake #fearful symmetry #songs of experience

[callmewinged]

"After wearing and wasting her palpitating heart with every engine of regret that lonely inexperience could devise, commonsense had illumined her. She felt that she would do well to be useful again--to taste anew sweet independence at any price. The past was past; whatever it had been it was no more at hand. Whatever its consequences, time would close over them; they would all in a few years be as if they'd never been, and she herself grassed down and forgotten. Meanwhile the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain." ~ Thomas Hardy, "Tess of the d'Urbervilles"

#literary quotes #tess of the d'urbervilles #songs of experience

[deadeyes-o0]

The Tyger by William Blake

Tyger Tyger, burning bright

In the forests of the night

What immortal hand or eye, 

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

On what wings dare he aspire?

What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, and what art,

Could twist the sinews of thy heart?

And when thy heart began to beat,

What dread hand? and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?

In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? what dread grasp?

Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears 

And water'd heaven with their tears

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger Tyger burning bright

In the forests of the night

What immortal hand or eye,

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

#poetry #the tyger #william blake #songs of experience #from the nebula

[bonos-grindcore-sideproject]

Found in a five-year-old email. :')

#Bono #U2 #Songs of Experience #the brush with death etc.

[blackhyena]

William Blake, plates from Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

#william blake #songs of innocence #songs of experience #romanticism #romantic poets #romantic poetry #18th century art #art #18th century poetry #nurse's song #infant joy #the blossom #the shepherd #quote #poetry #p

[cronamatic]

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙷𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙰𝚋𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝

𝙱𝚢 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚔𝚎

𝙿𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚋𝚎 𝚗𝚘 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎

𝙸𝚏 𝚠𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚍 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚋𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚘𝚘𝚛;

𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝙼𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚢 𝚗𝚘 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚋𝚎

𝙸𝚏 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝚊𝚜 𝚠𝚎.

𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚞𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚕 𝚏𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚋𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚎;

𝚃𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎:

𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝙲𝚛𝚞𝚎𝚕𝚝𝚢 𝚔𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚊 𝚜𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚎

𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚜 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚊𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚎.

𝙷𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚢 𝚏𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜

𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜:

𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝙷𝚞𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚝

𝚄𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚘𝚝.

𝚂𝚘𝚘𝚗 𝚜𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚕 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚎

𝙾𝚏 𝙼𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍,

𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙲𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚙𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙵𝚕𝚢

𝙵𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙼𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚢

𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚛𝚞𝚒𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝙳𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚒𝚝,

𝚁𝚞𝚍𝚍𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚊𝚝,

𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚁𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎

𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚒𝚗 𝚟𝚊𝚒𝚗:

𝙸𝚗 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚎.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙶𝚘𝚍𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚎𝚊

𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘’ 𝙽𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚃𝚛𝚎𝚎,

𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙷𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙱𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚗.

#poetry #william blake #romantic era #1700s #literature #art #songs of experience

[5hrskypecalls]

I Dreamt a Dream! what can it mean? And that I was a maiden Queen: Guarded by an Angel mild: Witless woe, was ne'er beguil'd! And I wept both night and day And he wip'd my tears away And I wept both day and night And hid from him my hearts delight So he took his wings and fled: Then the morn blush'd rosy red: I dried my tears & armed my fears, With ten thousand shields and spears. Soon my Angel came again; I was arm'd, he came in vain: For the time of youth was fled, And grey hairs were on my head.

- The Angel, Songs Of Experience, William Blake 1794

#poetry #poems #🌸 #william blake #songs of experience #the angel

[azukilynn]

inexplicable

whenever i see a woman with your configuration, though we never met in the flesh, my body responds, my spirit deeply longs

my eyes well up, my breath catches

my cheeks redden, my heart picks up its pace

her dark eyes are a mystery

her brunette locks unravel me

she is short, curvy, strong

she is hard—she is soft

when i see her, i miss you

i miss you and i want you—

immediately

azuki lynn

#poetry #spilled ink #writing #writerscreed #love #poem #inexplicable #longing #memory #desire #spirit #fire #flame #random #songs of experience #azukilynn #poets on tumblr #content creator

[acciomylove]

i was in lit today & we were analyzing the sick rose - williams blake. my teacher was explaining how the line: "the invisible worm" and similar descriptions in literature can be used as phallic symbols.

i immediately started giggling. i was the only person who laughed ... i was incredibly flustered by my apparent immaturity, but also confused because my class is definitely not comprised of anyone too mature to laugh at a dick joke.

i was right. as soon as my teacher explained that "phallic" was basically synonymous with penis, the entire room burst out with laughter. so then i realized that i wasn't immature, i was just the only person who knew what "phallic" meant ...

is the meaning of "phallic" not common knowledge?

i've always loved studying greek and roman mythology, especially art depicting or related to the myths. whenever i read up on the histories of various sculptures, stories and architecture, terms like "phallus" had always shown up quite commonly to describe symbolic themes.

anyways im clearly still embarassed because i haven't stopped thinking about today's lesson for the past 9 hours ...

#classical literature #the sick rose #williams blake #romanticism #songs of experience #songs of innocence #songs of innocence and of experience #english literature #studyblr #studyspo #classical lit #chaotic academia #academia

[theadamantium]

Harri's Top 50 U2 Songs

“Where The Streets Have No Name” - The Joshua Tree (1987)

“Sunday Bloody Sunday” - War (1983)

“Pride (In The Name of Love)” - The Unforgettable Fire (1984)

“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” - The Joshua Tree (1987)

“With or Without You” - The Joshua Tree (1987)

“One” - Achtung Baby (1991)

“Elevation” - All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000)

“All I Want Is You” - Rattle and Hum (1988)

“City of Blinding Lights” - How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)

“Beautiful Day” - All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000)

“Vertigo” - How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)

“Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses” - Achtung Baby (1991)

“New Year’s Day” - War (1983)

“I Will Follow” - Boy (1980)

“Magnificent” - No Line on the Horizon (2009)

“Walk On” - All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000)

“Sweetest Thing” - single (1998)

“Desire” - Rattle and Hum (1988)

“Bad” - The Unforgettable Fire (1984)

“Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” - A Very Special Christmas (1987)

“Bullet The Blue Sky” - The Joshua Tree (1987)

“Stuck In A Moment That You Can’t Get Out Of” - All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000)

“Kite” - All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000)

“Mysterious Ways” - Achtung Baby (1991)

“Until The End of The World” - Achtung Baby (1991)

“Acrobat” - Achtung Baby (1991)

“I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight” - No Line on the Horizon (2009)

“Even Better Than The Real Thing” - Achtung Baby (1991)

“No Line on the Horizon” - No Line on the Horizon (2009)

“Get On Your Boots” - No Line on the Horizon (2009)

Sometimes You Can’t Make It On You Own” - How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)

“Angel of Harlem” - Rattle and Hum (1988)

“Song For Someone” - Songs of Innocence (2014)

“The Electrical Co.” - Boy (1980)

“Red Hill Mining Town” - The Joshua Tree (1987)

“The Fly” - Achtung Baby (1991)

“Love Is Blindness” - Achtung Baby (1991)

“All Because of You” - How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)

“Every Breaking Wave” - Songs of Innocence (2014)

“In A Little While” - All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000)

“Out of Control” - Boy (1980)

“Staring At The Sun” - Pop (1997)

“The Little Things That Give You Away” - Songs of Experience (2017)

“Yahweh” - How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)

“Miracle Drug” - How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)

“Iris (Hold Me Close)” - Songs of Innocence (2014)

“Ultra Violet” - Achtung Baby (1991)

“When Love Comes to Town” with B.B. King - Rattle and Hum (1988)

“The Unforgettable Fire” - The Unforgettable Fire (1984)

“”40”” - War (1983)

#U2 #Top 50 #Top 50 Songs #Top 10 #Best of #best of list #the Joshua tree #achtung baby #all that you can't leave behind #how to dismantle and atomic bomb #songs of innocence #songs of experience #the unforgettable fire #rattle and hum #no line on the horizon #music #rock music #Bono #The Edge #rock n roll #80s rock #90s rock #00s rock #irish music #rock band