Notes
1] The companion poem to "Infant Joy" in Poems of Innocence (1789).
4] cloud: the placenta, expelled in childbirth.
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Original text: William Blake, Songs of Experience (W. Blake, 1794). Blake's Illuminated Books, ed. David Bindman (Princeton, NJ: William Blake Trust; London: Tate Gallery, 1991-). See Vol. 2. PR 4142 B46 1991 Robarts Library. Text from William Blake's Writings, ed. G. E. Bentley, Jr. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978): I, 193. PR 4141 B45 Robarts Library
First publication date:
1794
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: 2003
Recent editing: 1:2003/7/22*1:2003/7/22
Form: quatrains
Rhyme: aabb