 | William Blake - 1914 - 554 sidor
...etc. MS. The Fly Little Fly, • Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I 5 A fly like thee ? Or art not thou A man like me ? For I dance, And drink, and sing, N 10 Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. The Fly] In the first draft found in the RossettiMS.... | |
 | Pierre Berger - 1914 - 444 sidor
...ended by identifying himself with it. Little Fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I A fly like thee ? Or art not thou A man like me ? 1 Rostetli MS No. 12 For I dance And drink, and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If... | |
 | Charles Gardner - 1919 - 236 sidor
...teaching continues in The Songs of Experience, but with a question mark. Blake sings to the Fly : " Am not I A fly like thee ? Or art not thou A man like me ? " To see humanity in a fly is Swedenborgian ; and Blake answered his question in the affirmative.... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - 1923 - 352 sidor
...long at bay. Even in the Songs of Experience the old simplicity and happiness reassert themselves : For I dance, And drink, and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. He does not agonize with the Fate that holds him in its grasp ; his peaceful, almost infantine, submission... | |
 | Eric Partridge - 1924 - 284 sidor
...Little fly, Thy Summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee ? Or are not thou A man like me ? For I dance And drink, and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brueh my wing. But the second thought in the queslion-slanza, typically Blake's, indicates the writer's... | |
 | William Blake - 1927 - 120 sidor
...typically Blake's in its originality of view -point: Little fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not...and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. My Pretty Rose Tree, tersely beautiful, perfumed and enigmatic (may we suppose the underlying thought... | |
 | Charles Gardner - 1919 - 234 sidor
...teaching continues in The Songs of Experience, but with a question mark. Blake sings to the Fly : " Am not I A fly like thee ? Or art not thou A man like me ? " To see humanity in a fly is Swedenborgian ; and Blake answered his question in the affirmative.... | |
 | William Blake - 1966 - 964 sidor
...THE FLY Little Fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I Aflylikethee? Or art not thou A man like me ? For I dance, And drink, & sing, to Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength & breath, And... | |
 | William Blake - 1984 - 52 sidor
...secret love Does thy life destroy. Little Fly The Hv Thy summers play. My thoughtless hand Has hrush 'd away Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink & sing: Till some hlind hand Shall hrush my wing. If thought is life And strength & hreath: And the... | |
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THE FLY LITTLE Fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me ? For I dance And drink & sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. 
