William Blake Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.

  William Blake

  Daughter, Song, Flower

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.409, Univ of California Press

• 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 wept to hear.

  William Blake

  Song, Cheer, Laughter

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) introduction

• And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

  William Blake

  Song, Children, Water

  William Blake, Andrew Lincoln (1991). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.143, Princeton University Press

• What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

  William Blake

  Dance, Wisdom, Song

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.337, Pearson Education

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