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... Great English Painters - Page 277by Allan Cunningham - 1886 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
| Arminianism - 1881 - 1046 pages
...dread grasp 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?' Blake devoted much time and mental energy to the preparation of what are called his 'Prophetic... | |
| Allan Cunningham - Artists - 1830 - 374 pages
...thy deadly terrors clasp ? When the stars threw down their spheres, And sprinkled heaven with shining tears, Did he smile, his work to see ? Did he who...defective, and the arrangement inharmonious ; but before tlie ear is thoroughly offended, it is soothed by some touch of deep melody and poetic thought. The... | |
| Fashion - 1867 - 738 pages
...grasp Dared thy deadly terrors clasp? " When the stars threw down their ap«ar», And watered beaten 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... | |
| 1907 - 516 pages
...immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry ? When the stars threw down their speare And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the lamb make thee? " Mae angylion a chythreuliaid," ebe Swedenborg, " yn cerdded yr un clawr, ond yn wrthdroed i'w... | |
| 1882 - 492 pages
...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 WTw made the lamb make thee ?" Charles Lamb called this a " glorious" poem, and another writer has... | |
| 1865 - 810 pages
...what dread grasp 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 ? Blake, we say, never surpassed these verses, and it is curious that though here •we have the... | |
| William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...hand form'd 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 ? WILLIAM BLAKE. SONG. (FROM THE SPANISH OP IGLESIAS.) ALEXIS calls me cruel ; The rifted crags... | |
| Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 pages
...hand form'd 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 LXXX KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT OF CANTERBURY An ancient story I'll tell you anon Of a... | |
| Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - Artists - 1863 - 366 pages
...thy strength and forged thy brain ? What the anvil ? What dread grasp Dared thy deadly terrors clnsp? When the stars threw down their spears. And water'd...smile his work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee? MY PRETTY ROSE TREE. A FLOWER was offer'd to me, Such a flower as May never bore, But I said,... | |
| 1863 - 788 pages
...anvil ? what dread grasp Dared thy deadly terrors clasp ? When the stars threw down their spp.ir?, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see ? Did He who made the lamb make thee ? Wo conclude with another extract, which is very sweet end beautiful, though tho divinity might... | |
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