The Sick Rose
The Sick Rose
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.
1O Rose, thou art sick!
2The invisible worm
3That flies in the night,
4In the howling storm,
5Has found out thy bed
6Of crimson joy:
7And his dark secret love
8Does thy life destroy.
Publication Start Year
1794
RPO poem Editors
Northrop Frye
RPO Edition
3RP 2.285.
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