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The Garden of Love Exhibit

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The Garden of Love By William Blake From Songs of Experience Illustration Transcript I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore.  And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires. Description      The Garden of Love, a poem from William Blake’s Songs of Experience, describes the sadness someone experiences over ruined memories. In it the narrator tells the reader they went to the Garden of Love, a place from their childhood where they used to play (the specific phrase, “Where I used to play on the green,” could suggest it is a continuation of a poem from the Songs of Innocence, The E...
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The Ecchoing Green Exhibit

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The Ecchoing Green By William Blake From Songs of Innocence Illustration     Transcript:   The sun does arise, And make happy the skies. The merry bells ring To welcome the Spring. The sky-lark and thrush, The birds of the bush, Sing louder around, To the bells’ cheerful sound.  While our sports shall be seen On the Ecchoing Green.   Old John, with white hair  Does laugh away care, Sitting under the oak, Among the old folk,  They laugh at our play,  And soon they all say. ‘Such, such were the joys.  When we all girls & boys,  In our youth-time were seen,  On the Ecchoing Green.’   Till the little ones weary No more can be merry The sun does descend, And our sports have an end:  Round the laps of their mothers,  Many sisters and brothers, Like birds in their nest, Are ready for rest; And sport no more seen, On the darkening Green. Description:   ...
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