"Hear the voice of the bard /
In one poem in this collection, a chapel with the words "Thou Shalt Not" written over its door fills the title location with graves. In another, a priest burns a young boy alive for setting "reason up for judge / Of our most holy mystery." Along with "The Garden of Love" and "A Little Boy Lost," other poems in it describe an "invisible worm" whose "dark secret love" attacks "The Sick Rose," and "Babes reduced to misery / Fed with cold and usurous hand" on "Holy Thursday." Containing an introduction beginning "Hear the voice of the bard / Who present, past, and future, sees" and also including "The Clod and the Pebble," "A Poison Tree," and "The Tiger," FTP, name this poetry collection by William Blake often paired with "Songs of Innocence."
In one poem in this collection, a chapel with the words "Thou Shalt Not" written over its door fills the title location with graves.
{Songs of Experience}