The lyrical poems of William Blake Author:William Blake Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FROM 'AN ISLAND IN THE MOON' The Song of Pbebe and Jellicoe drest like beauty's queen, Jellicoe in faint pea-green, Sitting all beneath a grot, Where the l... more »ittle lambkins trot. Maidens dancing, loves a-sporting, All the country folks a-courting, Susan, Johnny, Bob, and Joe, Lightly tripping on a row. Happy people, who can be In happiness compar'd with ye ? The pilgrim with his crook and hat Sees your happiness compleat. This City and this Country ""THIS city and this country has brought forth many mayors To sit in state, and give forth laws out of their old oak chairs, With face as brown as any nut with drinking of strong ale— Good English hospitality, O then it did not fail! With scarlet gowns and broad gold lace, would make a yeoman sweat; With stockings roll'd above their knees and shoes as black as jet; With eating beef and drinking beer, O they were stout and hale— Good English hospitality, O then it did not fail! Thus sitting at the table wide the mayor and aldermen Were fit to give law to the city; each eat as much as ten : The hungry poor enter'd the hall to eat good beef and ale— Good English hospitality, O then it did not fail! 0 leave me to my Sorrows T EAVE, O leave me to my sorrows ; - Here I'll sit and fade away, Till I'm nothing but a spirit, And I lose this form of clay. Then if chance along this forest Any walk in pathless ways, Thro' the gloom he'll see my shadow, Hear my voice upon the breeze. SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE SONGS OF INNOCENCE Introduction PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me : ' Pipe a song about a Lamb! ' So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again ;' So I piped: he ...« less