"A Divine Image" is a poem by William Blake from Songs of Experience, 1794.
William Blake, "A Diveine Image"", from Songs of Experience, 1794. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
A Divine Image[]
Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secrecy the human dress.
The human dress is forged iron,
The human form a fiery forge,
The human face a furnace seal'd,
The human heart its hungry gorge.
Publishing History[]
"A Divine Image" appeared only in copy BB of the combined Songs of Innocence and of Experience.[1]
Recognition[]
"A Divine Image," by William Blake
Ralph Vaughan Williams set the poem to music in his 1958 song cycle Ten Blake Songs, under the title "Cruelty Has a Human Heart".
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Notes[]
- ↑ "Songs of Innocence and of Experience". William Blake Archive. http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=songsie. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
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