your online library and language lab

Contents > Author > William Blake > Infant Sorrow (from Songs of Experience) 1757- 1827 Previous Next William Blake Infant Sorrow (from Songs of Experience) printer friendly version Click above to listen to this quote! or download the clip My mother groan'd! my father wept. Into the dangerous world I leapt: Helpless, naked, piping loud: Like a fiend hid in a cloud. Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast. Read by: Jeff Kiok   Previous Next

Warning: Unknown: Your script possibly relies on a session side-effect which existed until PHP 4.2.3. Please be advised that the session extension does not consider global variables as a source of data, unless register_globals is enabled. You can disable this functionality and this warning by setting session.bug_compat_42 or session.bug_compat_warn to off, respectively in Unknown on line 0