Songs and Proverbs of William Blake
Song cycle
Songs and Proverbs of William Blake is a song cycle composed by Benjamin Britten (1913–76) in 1965 for baritone voice and piano and published as his Op. 74. The published score states that the words were "selected by Peter Pears" from Proverbs of Hell, Auguries of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake (1757–1827).
Movements
- The pride of the peacock...London
- Prisons are built... The Chimney sweeper
- The bird a nest... A poison tree
- Think in the morning... The Tyger
- The tygers of wrath... The Fly
- The hours of folly... Ah, Sun-flower
- To see a World... Every night & every morn