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William Blake
William Blake
A radical thinker for his day, William Blake privileged imagination over reason in the creation of his poetry and images....
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Childhood
"Out, Out—"
by Robert Frost
A Boy Juggling a Soccer Ball
by Christopher Merrill
A child said, What is the grass?
by Walt Whitman
anyone lived in a pretty how town
by E. E. Cummings
Birches
by Robert Frost
Block City
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Blur
by Andrew Hudgins
Fern Hill
by Dylan Thomas
In the Waiting Room
by Elizabeth Bishop
Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carroll
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
by William Wordsworth
Pledge
by Elizabeth Powell
The Children's Hour
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Swing
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Lamb  
by William Blake

Little lamb, who made thee?

Dost thou know who made thee,
Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o'er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing, woolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales rejoice?
Little lamb, who made thee?
Dost thou know who made thee?

Little lamb, I'll tell thee;
Little lamb, I'll tell thee:
He is called by thy name,
For He calls Himself a Lamb.
He is meek, and He is mild,
He became a little child.
I a child, and thou a lamb,
We are called by His name.
Little lamb, God bless thee!
Little lamb, God bless thee!
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