What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made... The Family Library (Harper). - Page 1261846Full view - About this book
| 1881 - 1046 pages
...thy deadly terrors clasp ? ' When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see ? Did He Who made the lamb make thee?' Blake devoted much time and mental energy to the preparation of what are called his 'Prophetic... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 374 pages
...thy strength and forged thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dared thy deadly terrors clasp ? When the stars threw down their spheres, And sprinkled...defective, and the arrangement inharmonious ; but before tlie ear is thoroughly offended, it is soothed by some touch of deep melody and poetic thought. The... | |
| 1867 - 738 pages
...thy deadly terrors clasp? " When the stars threw down their ap«ar», And watered beaten with their tears, Did He smile his work to see ? Did He who made the lamb make thee ?" Mrs. Montagu, by virtue of the "moral" in the last line, may possibly have ventured to read... | |
| 1907 - 516 pages
...Dare frame thy fearful symmetry ? When the stars threw down their speare And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the lamb make thee? " Mae angylion a chythreuliaid," ebe Swedenborg, " yn cerdded yr un clawr, ond yn wrthdroed i'w... | |
| 1865 - 810 pages
...Dared thy deadly terrors clasp ? When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see ? Did He who made the lamb make thee ? Blake, we say, never surpassed these verses, and it is curious that though here •we have the... | |
| William Allingham - 1860 - 316 pages
...hand form'd thy dread feet ? What the hammer, what the chain ? In what furnace was thy brain ? Did God smile his work to see ? Did He who made the lamb make thee ? WILLIAM BLAKE. SONG. (FROM THE SPANISH OP IGLESIAS.) ALEXIS calls me cruel ; The rifted crags... | |
| Coventry Patmore - 1862 - 372 pages
...hand form'd thy dread feet ? What the hammer, what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain ? Did God smile his work to see ? Did He who made the lamb make thee ? W. Blake LXXX KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT OF CANTERBURY An ancient story I'll tell you anon Of a... | |
| 1863 - 788 pages
...Dared thy deadly terrors clasp ? When the stars threw down their spp.ir?, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see ? Did He who made the lamb make thee ? Wo conclude with another extract, which is very sweet end beautiful, though tho divinity might... | |
| Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1863 - 366 pages
...Dared thy deadly terrors clnsp? When the stars threw down their spears. And water'd heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee? MY PRETTY ROSE TREE. A FLOWER was offer'd to me, Such a flower as May never bore, But I said,... | |
| Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1864 - 424 pages
...dared thy deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see ? Did He who made the lamb make thee?' OEtUiam Blafcc, (Songs of Experience.) ' MOCK on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau, Mock on, mock... | |
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