• William Blake (1757–1827) wrote two poems entitled “Nurse’s Song”, and it is important to take both of them into account. ... Nurse’s Song” is one of these titles.
  • The poem 'Nurse’s Song' is a description of an unpretentious encounter between a nurse and a group of children who are playing on a hill.
  • In this poem the Nurse, a mirror image of the gentle, kind Nurse in Songs of Innocence, has a harsher view of play and sees the freedom that the children enjoy as...
  • Nurse’s Song. When voices of children are heard on the green, And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast, And everything else is still.
  • Published in Songs of Innocence in 1789, the poem tells of a Nurse who is watching her children playing out in the fields.
  • You can listen to the 2 versions of the poem in separate recordings and read along with the text… MP3 Recording of Nurse’s Song (from Songs of Innocence).
  • The poem in Songs of Experience portrays the nurse in a different light: she is bitter, and fears the consequences of her actions.
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  • Nurse's Song. When the voices of children are heard on the green, And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast, And everything else is still.