Poetry

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

by William Blake

Two little books of poems, one about a world before disappointment and one about the world after it arrives. Read them side by side, in either order; the argument only works as a pair. The tiger and the lamb never actually meet, and that is rather the point.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 20 minutes

Where to find it

The Evening Room

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #1934. In the public domain in the United States.