Sunday, December 18, 2005

I love this

I just found a poem I absolutely love in a book I didn't know I had!

The Tyger

Tyger, Tyger burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil, what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger, Tyger burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?


3 Comments:

At 8:43 PM GMT, Blogger Big Pig said...

Except, it's my book, heh.

 
At 8:15 PM GMT, Blogger bugexplorer said...

yeah, not my book after all! oh well at least I found the poem - I wanted to read it...

I do have Lee's email address but it's probably not a good idea to put it up in public - so many people must hate him, he'll be inundated with hate mail!

 
At 2:54 AM GMT, Blogger Nix said...

Hate mail, fan mail, it's all the same stuff. I just fly off into another caffeine induced paranoid fit anyway!

 

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