The Fly
William Blake * Track #7 On Songs of Experience
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- #6The Sick Rose
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- #7The Fly
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- #19A Little Boy Lost
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- #20A Little Girl Lost
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- #21A Divine Image (Songs of Experience)
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The Fly by William Blake
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William BlakeAbout
This poem was first published in 1794 and was one of the series of poems in Songs of Experience. These short poems explore the harsh realities of late 18th and early 19th Century life during the time of King George III, known — ironically given the terrible social conditions of the time — as the Rom...
The Fly Annotated
Little Fly
Thy summer's play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away
Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?
For I dance
And drink, and sing
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing
If thought is life
And strength and breath
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly
If I live
Or if I die
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The Fly was written by William Blake.