Quotations- English Literature

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‘The sun does rise/ and make happy the sky.’
The Eccohing Green
1 of 124
‘On the darkening green’
The Eccohing Green
2 of 124
‘the skylark and thrush/ the birds of the bush’
The Eccohing Green
3 of 124
‘delight,’ ‘bright,’ ‘rejoice’
The Lamb
4 of 124
‘bore’ and ‘wild’
The Little Black Boy
5 of 124
‘under leaves so green’
The Blossom
6 of 124
‘a happy blossom’
The Blossom
7 of 124
‘mire was deep’
The Little Boy Lost
8 of 124
‘lonely fen’
The Little Boy Found
9 of 124
‘green woods laugh’
The Laughing Song
10 of 124
‘dimpling stream’
The Laughing Song
11 of 124
‘green hills’
The Laughing Song
12 of 124
‘the birds are silent in their nest,’
Night
13 of 124
‘the moon, like a flower’
Night
14 of 124
‘Farewell green fields and happy groves,’
Night
15 of 124
‘Birds delight/ Day and Night’ ‘Nightingale’ ‘Lark in the sky’
Spring
16 of 124
‘So, if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.’
The Chimney Sweeper
17 of 124
‘Can I see another’s woe/ And not be in sorrow too?’
On Another’s Sorrow
18 of 124
‘he became a little lamb/ I a child and thou a lamb’
The Lamb
19 of 124
‘Is God our father dear; [...]/Is man, His child and care.’
The Divine Image
20 of 124
‘The children walking two and two,’
Holy Thursday
21 of 124
‘They like Thames waters flow’
Holy Thursday
22 of 124
‘Unseen they pour blessing’ ‘to keep them all from harm’
Night
23 of 124
‘O He gives to us His joy,/ That our grief Hey may destroy:’
On Another’s Sorrow
24 of 124
‘When I from black, and he from white cloud free.’
The Little Black Boy
25 of 124
‘And all must love the human from,/ In heathen, Turk or Jew.’
The Divine Image
26 of 124
‘the valleys wild’
Introduction
27 of 124
‘in the southern wild’
The Little Black Boy
28 of 124
‘lonely fen,’ ‘lonely dale’
The Little Boy Found
29 of 124
‘cloud,’ ‘child,’ ‘laughing,’ and ‘piping,’ ‘wept,’ ‘wept with joy,’ ‘plucked a hollow reed’ and ‘stained the water clear’ ‘a child’ --> ‘every child’
Introduction
30 of 124
‘lambs’ have an ‘innocent call’
The Shepherd
31 of 124
‘the Lamb’ ‘Who made thee?’
The Lamb
32 of 124
‘and he will then love me.
The Little Black Boy
33 of 124
‘that curled like a lamb’s back’
The Chimney Sweeper
34 of 124
‘green’ ‘laughing’ ‘sweet round mouths’ ‘sweet chorus.’
The Laughing Song
35 of 124
‘innocent faces clean’ ‘these flowers of London town!’ ‘multitudes of lambs.’ ‘innocent hands.’
Holy Thursday
36 of 124
‘Come and lick/ My white neck’
The Lamb
37 of 124
‘let us play, for it is yet day,/ And we cannot go to sleep;’ ‘The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laughed,/ And all the gills echoed.’
Nurse’s Song
38 of 124
‘Shepherd’ ‘strays,’ VS ‘follows’
The Shepherd
39 of 124
‘mother’ and ‘our father'
The little Black Boy
40 of 124
‘my father sold me’
The Chimney Sweeper
41 of 124
‘where are you going?/ O do not walk so fast.’
The Little Boy Lost
42 of 124
‘no father was there.'
The Little Boy Lost
43 of 124
‘He’d have God for his father, and never want joy.’
The Chimney Sweeper
44 of 124
‘but God, ever nigh,/ appeared like his father in white.’
The Little Boy Found
45 of 124
‘Who in sorrow pale, through the lonely dale,/ her little boy weeping sought.’
The Little Boy Found
46 of 124
‘Sweet smiles, mother’s smiles’
A Cradle Song
47 of 124
‘I am set to light this ground’
A Dream
48 of 124
‘Can a father see his child/ weep, nor be with sorrow filled?’
On Another’s Sorrow
49 of 124
‘Can a mother sit and hear/ an infant groan and an infant fear?’
On Another’s Sorrow
50 of 124
‘Old John,’ ‘darkening’
The Eccohing Green
51 of 124
‘Wept for me, for thee, for all’
A Cradle Song
52 of 124
‘the sun descending in the West’
Night
53 of 124
‘When wolves and tigers howl for prey’
Night
54 of 124
‘Come, come, leave off the play, and let us away,/ Till the morning appears in the skies.’
Nurse’s song
55 of 124
‘taught [...] underneath a tree’
The little Black Boy
56 of 124
‘Where the youth pined away with desire ,’
Ah, Sunflower
57 of 124
‘A flower was offered to me’
My Pretty Rose Tree
58 of 124
‘blushed,’ ‘red’ ‘heart’s delight’
The Angel
59 of 124
‘crimson joy’
The Sick Rose
60 of 124
‘I dried my tears’
The Angel
61 of 124
‘How the youthful harlot’s curse/ Blasts, the new-born infant’s tear.’
London
62 of 124
‘I saw it was filled with graves.’
The Garden of Love
63 of 124
'The modest rose puts forth a thorn’
The Lily
64 of 124
‘Where the youth pined away with desire ,’
Ah, Sunflower
65 of 124
‘I passed the sweet flower o’er.’
My Pretty Rose Tree
66 of 124
‘Did he who made the lamb make thee?’
The Tyger
67 of 124
‘grey hairs were on my head.’
The Angel
68 of 124
‘armed my fears’
The Angel
69 of 124
‘and hid from him my heart’s delight.’
The Angel
70 of 124
‘And your winter and night in disguise’
Nurse’s Song
71 of 124
‘My face turns green and pale’
Nurse’s Song
72 of 124
‘they clothed me in the clothes of death’
The Chimney Sweeper
73 of 124
‘A little black thing among the snow’
The Chimney Sweeper
74 of 124
‘beasts of prey’
The Little Girl Lost
75 of 124
‘while the lioness/ loosed her slender dress,’
The Little Girl Lost
76 of 124
‘Love seeketh only Self to please,’
The Clod and the Pebble
77 of 124
‘And weeping in the evening dew’
Introduction
78 of 124
‘fallen, fallen’
Introduction
79 of 124
‘Night is worn,/ And the morn/ Rise from the slumberous mass.’
Introduction
80 of 124
‘I was armed, he came in vain’
The Angel
81 of 124
‘guarded by an angel mild:’
The Angel
82 of 124
‘All the night in woe/ Lyca’s parents go’
The Little Girl Found
83 of 124
‘In his arms he bore/ her, armed with sorrow sore;’
The Little Girl Found
84 of 124
‘a couching lion lay’
The Little Girl Found
85 of 124
‘silent by them stands’
The Little Girl Found
86 of 124
‘do father, mother, weep?’
The little Girl Lost
87 of 124
‘Where I used to play on the green’
The Garden of Love
88 of 124
‘Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.’
The Lily
89 of 124
‘For I dance,/ And drink and sing,’
The Fly
90 of 124
‘Your spring and your day are wasted in play,’
Nurse’s Song
91 of 124
‘And because I am happy and dance and sing’
The Chimney Sweeper
92 of 124
‘Is that trembling cry a song?/ Can it be a song of joy?’
Holy Thursday
93 of 124
‘Love seeketh not itself to please’
The Clod and the Pebble
94 of 124
‘But my rose turned away with jealousy,/ and her thorns were my only delight.’
My Pretty Rose Tree
95 of 124
‘blackening church appals’
London
96 of 124
‘And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,/ And binding with briars my joys and desires.’
The Garden of Love
97 of 124
‘What immortal hand or eye/ Could frame thy fearful symmetry?’
The Tyger
98 of 124
‘And are gone to praise God and His priest and king,/ who made up a heaven of our misery.’
The Chimney Sweeper
99 of 124
‘A spirit armed in gold./ On his head a crown,’
The Little Girl Lost
100 of 124
‘Is this a holy thing to see?’
Holy Thursday
101 of 124
‘mind-forged manacles’
London
102 of 124
'every’
London
103 of 124
‘A mark in every face I meet,/ Marks of weakness, marks of woe.’
London
104 of 124
‘the church is cold’
The Little Vagabond
105 of 124
‘But the alehouse is healthy, and pleasant and warm.
The Little Vagabond
106 of 124
‘And ‘Thou shalt not’ writ over the door’
The Garden of Love
107 of 124
‘Babies reduced to misery,/ Fed with cold and usurious hand.’
Holy Thursday
108 of 124
‘So many children poor?/ It is a land of poverty!’
Holy Thursday
109 of 124
‘So sung the little clod of clay,/ Trodden with the cattle’s feet.’
The clod and The Pebble
110 of 124
‘Break this heavy chain,/ That does freeze my bones around!’
Earth’s Answer
111 of 124
‘Garden of Love’
The Garden of Love
112 of 124
‘And tombstones were flowers should be’
The Garden of Love
113 of 124
‘Tyger, Tyger burning bright/ In the forests of the night,’
The Tyger
114 of 124
‘Then the morn blushed rosy red.’
The Angel
115 of 124
‘Little Fly’
The Fly
116 of 124
‘The invisible worm,’
The Sick Rose
117 of 124
‘in the howling night’
The Sick Rose
118 of 124
‘And whisperings are in the dale’
Nurse’s Song
119 of 124
‘Among tigers wild’
The Little Girl Found
120 of 124
‘desert wild’ ‘frowning, frowning night,/ O’er this desert bright’
The Little Girl Lost
121 of 124
‘For where’er the sun does shine,/ And where’er the rain does fall,/ Babe cane never hunger there,’
Holy Thursday
122 of 124
‘And her locks covered with grey despair.’
Earth’s Answer
123 of 124
‘O Earth, O Earth return!’
Introduction
124 of 124

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