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). - Seite 1261846Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Book - 1864 - 396 Seiten
...hand formed 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. THE SQUIRREL. JHE squirrel is happy, the squirrel is gay," Little Harry exclaimed... | |
| 1865 - 538 Seiten
...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 7 Blake, we say, never surpassed these verses, and it is curious that though hero we have the... | |
| Gail Hamilton - 1865 - 461 Seiten
...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 ? " Mrs. Montagu, by virtue of the "moral" in the last line, may possibly have ventured to read... | |
| William Blake - 1866 - 132 Seiten
...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 lamb make thee ? Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Dare frame... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1868 - 354 Seiten
...sight of this new force of monstrous matter seen in the deepest night as a fire of menace to man — " Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the lamb' make thee ? " We may add another cancelled reading to show how delicately the poem has been perfected ;... | |
| 1868 - 852 Seiten
...question, so strikingly put by the engraver Blake in his little poem addressed to the tiger — Did fie smile his work to see ? Did He who made the lamb make thee ? "To any one who has really studied the forms and laws of human degeneracy, so far as these are... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1869 - 784 Seiten
...deadly terrors clasp ? Dared thy " 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 ? ' Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Dare frame... | |
| 1872 - 778 Seiten
...deadly terrors clasp ? When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears, Dal he smile his work to see ? Did He who made the lamb, make Ihce ? " For the present I quit, and neither dwell upon nor attempt an answer to the question, only... | |
| 1873 - 296 Seiten
...Dare thy 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 lamb make thee ? AVILLIAM BLAKE. MY RIVER. RIVER ! my River, in the young sunshine ! Oh, clasp afresh in thine... | |
| 1873 - 780 Seiten
...deadly talons clasp f When the stars threw down their SlxMI>. And watered heaven with their t,nrs, Did He smile His work to see ? Did He who made the lamb make thef!" I can quite understand the passiou of the mountaineer. To enter into the sonl of the mountains... | |
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