{"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–The Tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
\nIn the forests of the night,
\nWhat immortal hand or eye
\nCould frame thy fearful symmetry?<\/p>\n

In what distant deeps or skies
\nBurnt the fire of thine eyes?
\nOn what wings dare he aspire?
\nWhat the hand dare seize the fire?<\/p>\n

And what shoulder and what art
\nCould twist the sinews of thy heart?
\nAnd, when thy heart began to beat,
\nWhat dread hand and what dread feet?<\/p>\n

What the hammer? What the chain?
\nIn what furnace was thy brain?
\nWhat the anvil? What dread grasp
\nDare its deadly terrors clasp?<\/p>\n

When the stars threw down their spears,
\nAnd water’d heaven with their tears,
\nDid He smile His work to see?
\nDid He who made the lamb make thee?<\/p>\n

Tiger, tiger, burning bright
\nIn the forests of the night,
\nWhat immortal hand or eye
\nDare frame thy fearful symmetry?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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,"_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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t