 HOLY THURSDAY. Is this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, — Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand? Is that trembling cry a song? Can it be a song of joy? And so many children poor? It is a land of poverty! And their sun...  Blake and the City - Pagina 46door Jennifer Davis Michael - 2006 - 235 pagina’sGedeeltelijke weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Blake - 1984 - 52 pagina’s
...land. Bahes reducd to misery. Fed with cold and usurous handIs that tremhling cry a song, Can it he a song of joy? And so many children poor, It is a...And their sun does never shine. And their fields are hleak & hare. And their ways are HH'd with thorns It is eternal winter there. For where,e'er the sun... | |
 | R. P. Hewett - 1985 - 322 pagina’s
...thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduc'd to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand? 4 Is that trembling cry a song? Can it be a song of...And so many children poor? It is a land of poverty! 8 And their sun does never shine, And their fields are bleak and bare, And their ways are fill'd with... | |
 | Ken Norris - 1988 - 100 pagina’s
...Orono, Maine l First Report Is this a holy thing to see, In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand? Is that...their sun does never shine, And their fields are bleak and bare. And their ways are fill'd with thorns; It is eternal winter there. For where-e 'er the sun... | |
 | David V. Erdman - 1991 - 628 pagina’s
...not mixed with brambles. In that land there is eternal spring, and light without any clouds." Blake: "It is a land of poverty! And their sun does never shine . . . And their ways are fill'd with thorns. It is eternal winter there." And in The Little Black Boy heaven is a place... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - 260 pagina’s
...reflects a very different reaction: Is this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand? Is that...their sun does never shine, And their fields are bleak and bare, And their ways are filled with thorns: It is eternal winter there. For where'er the sun does... | |
 | William Blake - 1998 - 340 pagina’s
...its delight. Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.' Holy Thursday 20 Is that trembling cry a song? Can it be a song of...their sun does never shine, And their fields are bleak and bare, 10 And their ways are filled with thorns; It is eternal winter there. For where'er the sun... | |
 | William Blake - 1996 - 180 pagina’s
...thing to see In a rich and fruitful land? Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand? 5 Is that trembling cry a song? Can it be a song of...a land of poverty! And their sun does never shine, 10 And their fields are bleak and bare, And their ways are filled with thorns It is eternal winter... | |
 | Sir Michael Sadler, Jack Sislian - 2004 - 352 pagina’s
...engraved by him in 1789: "Is this a holy thing to see/ In a rich and fruitful land — / Babes reduced to misery/ Fed with cold and usurous hand?/ Is that...their sun does never shine/ And their fields are bleak and bare/ And their ways are filled with thorns:/ It is eternal winter there./ For where'er the sun... | |
 | Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee, Peter J. Kitson - 2004 - 354 pagina’s
...contempt for such charity clear. Is this a holy thing to see, In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand? Is that...And so many children poor? It is a land of poverty! (Erdman, p. 19) Charity, Blake implies, depends on the poverty it offers to relieve. In this context... | |
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