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This poem belongs to the Songs of Experience by William Blake. It is the counter poem of "Infant Joy". The poem suggests that childbirth is not always joyful and happy but can bring sorrow and pain. The response of the child itself may be different from that of the child in "Infant Joy" because of the behavior of the parents.
"Infant Joy" is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was first published as part of his collection Songs of Innocence in 1789 and is the counterpart to "Infant Sorrow", which was published at a later date in Songs of Experience in 1794. Ralph Vaughan Williams set the poem to music in his 1958 song cycle Ten Blake Songs.
"One for Sorrow" is a traditional children's nursery rhyme about magpies. According to an old superstition , the number of magpies seen tells if one will have bad or good luck. Lyrics
A loss: Express the emotions and memories tied to a significant loss, capturing the depth of sorrow. 86. Your first heartache : Sing about heartbreak and the bittersweet memories.
This rhyme was first recorded in A. E. Bray's Traditions of Devonshire (Volume II, pp. 287–288) [2] in 1836 and was later collected by James Orchard Halliwell in the mid-19th century, varying the final lines to "The child that's born on Christmas Day/ Is fair and wise, good and gay."
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The woman ties the spiritual world to the physical. She notes how she can trace His (Christ's) holy image on her baby. The mother tells the baby to sleep as she cries, representing how the mother is aware of the sinful world her baby will grow up and eventually die in. She claims how Jesus wept for all and wept for her.