The Angel (Songs of Experience)

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I Dreamt a Dream! what can it mean?

And that I was a maiden Queen:

Guarded by an Angel mild:

Witless woe, was ne'er beguil'd!

And I wept both night and day

And he wip'd my tears away

And I wept both day and night

And hid from him my hearts delight

So he took his wings and fled:

Then the morn blush'd rosy red:

I dried my tears & armed my fears,

With ten thousand shields and spears.

Soon my Angel came again;

I was arm'd, he came in vain:

For the time of youth was fled,

And grey hairs were on my head.{{cite book |last=Blake |first=William |author-link=William Blake |editor-last=Erdman |editor-first=David V. |editor-link=David V. Erdman |title=The Complete Poetry and Prose |date=1988 |publisher=Anchor Books |isbn=0385152132 |edition=Newly revised |page=24 |url=https://archive.org/details/completepoetrypr00blak/page/}}}}

This is one of Blake's poems quoted by a character in David Almond's Skellig.

Blake manuscript - Notebook 52 - The Angel.jpg|Blake manuscript - Notebook 52 - The Angel

Blake The Angel.jpg|The Angel, Copy W, c. 1825, King's College, Cambridge, England

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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy AA, 1826 (The Fitzwilliam Museum) object 41 The Angel.jpg|Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy AA, 1826 (The Fitzwilliam Museum) object 41 The Angel

Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Y, 1825 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) object 41 The Angel.jpg|Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Y, 1825 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) object 41 The Angel

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Category:1794 poems

Category:Songs of Innocence and of Experience