Ah! Sun-flower

Copy AA of Blake's engraving of the poem in Songs of Experience. This copy is currently held by the Fitzwilliam Museum

"Ah! Sun-flower" is an illustrated poem written by the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794 (no.43 in the sequence of the combined book, Songs of Innocence and of Experience). It is one of only four poems in Songs of Experience not found in the "Notebook" (the Rossetti MS).[1]

  1. ^ Blake, William (1972). The poems of William Blake (W.H. Stevenson ed.). London; New York: Longman; Norton. pp. xxiii, 875.Text of the poems edited by David V. Erdman. p.209. ISBN 0582484596.