Anger & Wrath my bosom rends

1545503Notebook c.1808-1811 5. Anger & Wrath my bosom rendsWilliam Blake

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Blake manuscript - Notebook 1808 - 05 Anger & Wrath my bosom rends

Edited text:[1] edit


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Anger & Wrath my bosom rends:
I thought them the Errors of friends.
But all my limbs with warmth glow:
I find them the Errors of the foe.

The original text:[2] edit


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Anger & Wrath my bosom rends
I thought them the Errors of friends
But all my limbs with warmth glow
I find them the Errors of the foe

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Notes edit

  1. "Blake Complete Writings", ed. Geoffrey Keynes, pub. OUP 1966/85, p. 538.
  2. "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 503.

 

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