Pipe a song about a Lamb: So I piped with merry chear, Piper pipe that song again—So I piped, he wept to hear. Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe Sing thy songs of happy chear, So I sung the same again While he wept with joy to hear.
The volume's "Contrary States" are sometimes signalled by patently repeated or contrasted titles: in Innocence, Infant Joy, in Experience, Infant Sorrow; in Innocence, The Lamb, in Experience, The Fly and The Tyger.
William Blake was also a painter before the songs of innocence and experience and made paintings such as Oberon, Titania, and Puck dancing with fairies.
This unique edition of the work allows Blake to communicate with his readers as he intended, reproducing Blake's own illumination and lettering from the finest existing example of the original work.
Superb full-color facsimiles of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, based on Blake's hand-written, hand-colored originals. 57 full-color plates.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience compiles two contrasting but directly related books of poetry by William Blake.
The book offers an insight into Frank Capra’s films and the complex process of creating his multidimensional romantic universe within them.
Blake wanted to show "two different states of the soul" in his songs.