POYEM "THE TYGER" By William blake

The Tyger

by
William Blake

Tyger, tyger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame they fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? and what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dared 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?
Tyger, tyger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

SOURCES:
Blake, William, "The Tyger," The Poetical Works of William Blake, A New and Verbatim Text From the Manuscript Engraved and Letterpress Originals, John Sampson, Editor. London: Clarendon Press. 1905, pages 110 - 111. Available on Google Fullview Books.

Blake, William. "The Tyger," Plate Number 42 from Songs of Experience.

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