This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1901 R. Brimley Johnson edition. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake Contents: SONGS OF INNOCENCE Introduction The Shepherd The Echoing Green The Lamb The Little Black Boy The Blossom The Chimney-Sweeper The Little Boy Lost The Little Boy Pound Laughing
Poems by William Blake
William Blake SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE and THE BOOK of THEL SONGS OF INNOCENCE INTRODUCTION 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