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1. Blake - The Lilly
2. Montagu - A Hymn to the Moon
3. Gray - The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode
4. Barbauld - A Summer Evening's Meditation
5. Barbauld - To a Little Invisible Being Who is Expected Soon to Become Visible
 
 
 
 
 



1."The Lilly"
From Songs of Innocence and of Experience
1795

William Blake
(1757-1827)

THE modest Rose puts forth a thorn:
The humble Sheep, a threatning horn:
While the Lilly white, shall in Love delight,
Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.