William Blake (1757-1827). Infant Sorrow. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1909. The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

Infant Sorrow

By William Blake (1757–1827)


MY mother groan’d, my father wept,
Into the dangerous world I leapt;
Helpless, naked, piping loud,
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.

Struggling in my father’s hands,	5
Striving against my swaddling-bands,
Bound and weary, I thought best
To sulk upon my mother’s breast.