AO2 Quotes (Songs of Experience) Flashcards
Selfish…
father of men! (The Earth’s Answer:E)
Love seeketh not…
itself to please/Nor for itself hath any care/But for another gives its ease/And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair. (The Clod and the Pebble:E)
Love seeketh only…
self to please/To bind another to its delight/Joys in another’s loss of ease/And builds a Hell in Heaven’s despite. (The Clod in the Pebble:E)
Can it be a…
song of joy?/And so many children poor?/It is a land of poverty! (Holy Thursday:E)
And their sun…
does never shine/And their fields are bleak and bare. (Holy Thursday:E)
A little…
black thing among the snow. (The Chimney Sweeper:E)
“Where are thy…
father and thy mother? say?” “They are both gone up to the church to pray.” (The Chimney Sweeper:E)
Soon my angel…
came again/I was arm’d, he came in vain/For the time of youth had fled/And grey hairs were on my head. (The Angel:E)
Did he who…
made the lamb make thee? (The Tyger:E)
A chapel…
was built in the midst/Where I use to play on the green. (The Garden of Love:E)
And Priests in…
black gowns were walking their rounds/And binding with briars my joys and desires. (The Garden of Love:E)
Dear mother…
dear mother, the Church is cold/But the Ale house is healthy and pleasant and warm. (The Little Vagabond:E)
And God, like a father…
rejoicing to see/His children as pleasant and happy as he. (The Little Vagabond:E)
Children of the future Age…
Reading this indignant page/Know that in a former time/Love! sweet Love! was thought a crime. (A Little Girl Lost:E)
Youth and maiden bright…
To the holy light/Naked in the sunny beams delight. (A Little Girl Lost:E)
