K. E. Smith (essay date 1999)
SOURCE: Smith, K. E. “Our Immortal Day: Songs of Innocence I.” In An Analysis of William Blake's Early Writings and Designs to 1790 Including Songs of Innocence, pp. 153-83. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999.
[In the following excerpt, Smith suggests various connections among the individual poems of Songs of Innocence.]
And there the lions ruddy eyes, Shall flow with tears of gold: And pitying the tender cries, And walking round the fold: Saying: wrath by his meekness, And by his health,...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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