Ah! Sun-flower
Ah! Sun-flower
Original Text
William Blake, Songs of Experience (1794). Blake's Illuminated Books, ed. David Bindman (Princeton, NJ: William Blake Trust; London: Tate Gallery, 1991-). See Vol. 2. PR 4142 B46 1991 ROBA.
2Who countest the steps of the Sun:
3Seeking after that sweet golden clime
4Where the traveller's journey is done;
5Where the Youth pined away with desire,
6And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow
7Arise from their graves and aspire
8Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.
Notes
1] In Ovid's Metamorphoses, IV.3, Clytia turned into a sun-flower, turning her head to the sun as it traveled across the sky, because her beloved Apollo the sun-god abandoned her. [IL] Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1794
RPO poem Editors
Northrop Frye; Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
3RP 2.284.
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