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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ENGLISH ENCOURAGEMENT OF ART (FIRST READING), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you mean to please every body you will Last Line: Of lighting a lamp when you dont wish to see Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bible; Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812); Mythology | |||
If you mean to Please Every body you will Set to work both Ignorance & skill For a great multitude are Ignorant And skill to them seems raving & rant Like putting oil & water into a lamp Twill make a great splutter with smoke & damp For there is no use as it seems to me Of lighting a Lamp when you dont wish to see | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BEDTIME READING FOR THE UNBORN CHILD by KHALED MATTAWA EAST OF CARTHAGE: AN IDYLL by KHALED MATTAWA SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 7 by CONRAD AIKEN VICARIOUS ATONEMENT by RICHARD ALDINGTON NOTHING ABOUT THE MOMENT by LUCILLE CLIFTON VENUS IN A GARDEN by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON AN OFFERING FOR TARA by GARY SNYDER A CRADLE SONG by WILLIAM BLAKE |
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