 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - Children in literature - 1922 - 401 pages
...companies they sit with radiance all their own. The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. The poem reveals Blake's ability to take a subject from common life and to depict it in lines that... | |
 | 1908
...companies they sit, with radiance all their own. The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls, raising their...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. An essay might be filled with instances of Blake's poignancy when touching upon the woes of the poor... | |
 | M. H. Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 496 pages
...companies they sit with radiance all their own. The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent...raise to heaven the voice of song, Or like harmonious thunderiags the seats of Heavens among. Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor;... | |
 | Daiches David - 1969 - 800 pages
...Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands. 866 BLAKE, WORDSWORTH, AND COLERIDGE Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. Here the conclusion makes explicit the moral, as happens more than once in these poems: For Mercy has... | |
 | Heather Glen - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 399 pages
...transcendent force of 'Pity', which is at their centre, is also central in Songs of Innocence: 'Then like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song', 'Then cherish pity; lest you drive an angel from your door.' Here, at the end of 'London', their evocation... | |
 | William Blake, Andrew Lincoln - Poetry - 1991 - 209 pages
...radiance all their own The hum of multitudes was there but multitudes of lambs Thousands of little boys & girls raising their innocent hands Now like a mighty...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door 19 -**fei..«' "^"ftriZK**1- ''£' . ilwtf on Allchriteurf 'Mr/'CiMi. *••«»*^:•^^^s^s^^r^,... | |
 | David V. Erdman - Art - 1977 - 582 pages
...of song Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heavn among Beneath them sit the revrend men the guardians of the poor Then cherish pity lest you drive an angel from your door After this recital the Islanders sit "silent for a quarter of an hour" — not, as some will have it,... | |
 | William Blake - Poetry - 1993 - 154 pages
...all their own. The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys & girls raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. Una prima stesura di questa poesia si trova nel romanzo burlesco di Blake, An Island in the Moon (1784-85).... | |
 | Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 508 pages
...transcendent force of 'Pity', which is at their centre, is also central in Songs of Innocence: 'Then like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song'. 'Then cherish pity; lest you drive an angel from your door.' Here, at the end of 'London', their evocation... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - Social Science - 1996 - 241 pages
...companies they sit, with radiance all their own. The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent...Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.17 The second, in Songs of Experience (1794), reflects a very different reaction: Is this a holy... | |
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Thames waters flow. O what a multitude they seemed, these flowers of London town! Seated in companies they sit, with radiance all their own. The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent... 
