"A Divine Image" is a poem by

William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. ...

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Songs of Experience ''Songs of Innocence and of Experience'' is a collection of illustrated poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases: a few first copies were printed and illuminated by Blake himself in 1789; five years later, he bound these poems with a ...

'', not to be confused with "

The Divine Image "The Divine Image" is a poem by the English poet William Blake from his book ''Songs of Innocence'' (1789), not to be confused with "A Divine Image" from ''Songs of Experience'' (1794). It was later included in his joint collection ''Songs of I ...

" from ''Songs of Innocence''. The poem only appeared in copy BB of the combined ''Songs of Innocence and of Experience.'' Ralph Vaughan Williams set the poem to music in his 1958

song cycle A song cycle (german: Liederkreis or Liederzyklus) is a group, or cycle (music), cycle, of individually complete Art song, songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a unit.Susan Youens, ''Grove online'' The songs are either for solo voice ...

Ten Blake Songs ''Ten Blake Songs'' is a song cycle for tenor or soprano voice and oboe composed over the Christmas period of 1957 by Ralph Vaughan Williams (18721958), for the 1958 film ''The Vision of William Blake'' by Guy Brenton for Morse Films. The firs ...

'', under the title "Cruelty Has a Human Heart".

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Songs of Innocence and of Experience {{poem-stub