HOLY THURSDAY. Is this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, — Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand? Is that trembling cry a song? Can it be a song of joy? And so many children poor? It is a land of poverty! And their sun... Blake and the City - Página 46por Jennifer Davis Michael - 2006 - 235 páginasVista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1863 - 366 páginas
...a holy thing to see, In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery, Fed with a cold usurious hand? Is that trembling cry a song? Can it be a song...their sun does never shine, And their fields are bleak and bare, And their ways are fill'd with thorns : It is eternal winter there. For where'er the sun... | |
| William Blake - 1866 - 132 páginas
...Albion's shore : HOLY THURSDAY. IS this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand ? Is that...their sun does never shine, And their fields are bleak and bare, And their ways are fill'd with thorns : It is eternal winter there. For where'er the sun... | |
| William Blake - 1874 - 194 páginas
...Albion's shore ? HOLY THURSDAY. IS this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand ? Is that...their sun does never shine, And their fields are bleak and bare. And their ways are fill'd with thorns : It is eternal winter there. For where'er the sun... | |
| 1881 - 884 páginas
...know whether it is "a holy thing" to see, in a rich and fruitful land, " babes reduced to misery ?" " Is that trembling cry a song, Can it be a song of...many children poor? It is a land of poverty." And the moral, to the poet, still simple in his bitterness, is that things are very wrong : " For where'er... | |
| 1883 - 410 páginas
...of food." HOLY THURSDAY. Is this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land — Dalies reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand ? Is that trembling cry a song ? Can it l>ea song of joy ? And so many children ]xx>r ? It is a land of poverty ! And their sun does never... | |
| William Blake - 1885 - 330 páginas
...despite." HOLY THURSDAY. I S this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land — Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand ? Is that...their sun does never shine, And their fields are bleak and bare, And their ways are filled with thorns : It is eternal winter there. For where'er the sun... | |
| William Blake - 1885 - 302 páginas
...loss of ease, HOLY THURSDAY. TS this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land — Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand ? Is that...And so many children poor ? It is a land of poverty I And their sun does never shine, And their fields are bleak and bare, And their ways are filled with... | |
| William Blake, Richard Herne Shepherd - 1887 - 224 páginas
...Albion's shore ? HOLY THURSDAY. IS this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand ? Is that...their sun does never shine, And their fields are bleak and bare. And their ways are fill'd with thorns : It is eternal winter there. For where'er the sun... | |
| William Blake - 1890 - 382 páginas
...HOLY THURSDAY. S this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, — Bubos reduced to misery, Is that trembling cry a song ? Can it be a song of...their sun does never shine, And their fields are bleak and bare, And their ways are filled with thorns : It is eternal winter there. For where'er the sun... | |
| William Blake - 1893 - 416 páginas
...despite." HOLY THUKSDAY. S this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, — Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand ? Is that...their sun does never shine, And their fields are bleak and bare, And their ways are filled with thorns : It is eternal winter there. For where'er the sun... | |
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