Songs of Experience - Definition and Overview

The Songs of Experience is a poetry collection, forming the second part of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Each poem written in Innocence is reflected in 'Experience', with quite a different perspective of the world. Blake believed that children lost their innocence thorough exploitation and a lack of support from the religious community.

"Songs of Experience" contains the following poems:

Introduction
Earth's Answer
The Clod & the Pebble
Holy Thursday
The Little Girl Lost & The Little Girl Found
The Chimney Sweeper
Nurses Song
The Sick Rose
The Fly
The Angel
The Tyger
My Pretty Rose Tree: Ah! Sun-flower: The Lilly
The Garden of Love
The Little Vagabond
London
The Human Abstract
Infant Sorrow
A Poison Tree
A Little Boy Lost
A Little Girl Lost
To Tirzah
The School-Boy
The Voice of the Ancient Bard

Each poem is accompanied by an illuminated plate.

See: Songs of Innocence.