August 3, 2021

Introduction
By: William Blake (1794)

Hear the voice of the Bard! Who Present, Past, & Future sees; Whose ears have heard, The Holy Word, That walk’d among the ancient trees; 5 Calling the lapsed Soul And weeping in the evening dew, That might controll, The starry pole, And fallen, fallen light renew! 10 O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn, And the morn Rises from the slumberous mass. 15 Turn away no more: Why wilt thou turn away? The starry floor The watry shore Is giv’n thee till the break of day. 20

Notes & Commentary

Work Cited

• Battenhouse, Henry M. (1958). English Romantic Writers. New York: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc.
• Gardner, Stanley (1969). Blake. Literary Critiques. New York: Arco.
• Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. (2018). The Norton Anthology of English Literature. The Major Authors. 2 (Tenth ed.). New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 9780393603095.
• Tomlinson, Alan (1987). Song of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake. MacMillan Master Guides. London: MacMillan Education.

Links

• Blake at the Internet Archive.