{"id":138,"date":"2010-01-31T14:55:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T14:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=138"},"modified":"2010-01-31T14:55:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T14:55:36","slug":"william-blake-the-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/william-blake-the-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"William Blake&#8211;The Tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-139 lazyload\" title=\"William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips-788x1024.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg 1423w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 231px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 231\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tiger, tiger, burning bright<br \/>\nIn the forests of the night,<br \/>\nWhat immortal hand or eye<br \/>\nCould frame thy fearful symmetry?<\/p>\n<p>In what distant deeps or skies<br \/>\nBurnt the fire of thine eyes?<br \/>\nOn what wings dare he aspire?<br \/>\nWhat the hand dare seize the fire?<\/p>\n<p>And what shoulder and what art<br \/>\nCould twist the sinews of thy heart?<br \/>\nAnd, when thy heart began to beat,<br \/>\nWhat dread hand and what dread feet?<\/p>\n<p>What the hammer? What the chain?<br \/>\nIn what furnace was thy brain?<br \/>\nWhat the anvil? What dread grasp<br \/>\nDare its deadly terrors clasp?<\/p>\n<p>When the stars threw down their spears,<br \/>\nAnd water&#8217;d heaven with their tears,<br \/>\nDid He smile His work to see?<br \/>\nDid He who made the lamb make thee?<\/p>\n<p>Tiger, tiger, burning bright<br \/>\nIn the forests of the night,<br \/>\nWhat immortal hand or eye<br \/>\nDare frame thy fearful symmetry?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Blake (1757-1827) an English poet and painter who had a major impact on the romantic era. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}