William Blake
William Blake (1757–1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker who created his own illuminated books. His collections "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experien…
"84 Thee the ancientest peer, Duke of Burgundy, rose from the monarch's right hand, red as wines 85 From his mountains; an odor of war"
"The little boy lost in the lonely fen, Led by the wandering light, Began to cry, but God, ever nigh, Appeared like his father, in w"
"i My spectre around me night and day Like a wild beast guards my way; My Emanation far within Weeps incessantly for my sin. ii"
"How sweet is the Shepherd's sweet lot! From the morn to the evening he stays; He shall follow his sheep all the day, And his tong"
"Never seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I"
"He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise."
"The sky is an immortal tent built by the Sons of Los: And every space that a man views around his dwelling-place Standing on his own roo"
"Merry, merry sparrow! Under leaves so green A happy blossom Sees you, swift as arrow, Seek your cradle narrow, Near my bo"
"My silks and fine array, My smiles and languish'd air, By love are driv'n away; And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to dec"
"Thou fair-haired angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown"
"The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, "Little creature, form'd of Joy and Mirth, "Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth.""
"When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit,"
"A flower was offered to me, Such a flower as May never bore; But I said "I've a pretty rose tree," And I passed the sweet flower o'"
"I laid me down upon a bank, Where Love lay sleeping; I heard among the rushes dank Weeping, weeping. Then I went to the heath"
"Little Lamb, who made thee Dost thou know who made thee, Gave thee life, and bid thee feed By the stream and o'er the mead; Ga"
"The nameless shadowy female rose from out the breast of Orc, Her snaky hair brandishing in the winds of Enitharmon; And thus her voice a"
"All the night in woe Lyca's parents go Over valleys deep, While the deserts weep. Tired and woe-begone, Hoarse with maki"
"To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love, All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For M"
"I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. I see the Past, Presen"
"Prepare, prepare the iron helm of war, Bring forth the lots, cast in the spacious orb; Th' Angel of Fate turns them with mighty hands,"
"I heard an Angel Singing When the day was springing: "Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release." So he sang all day"
"Come, kings, and listen to my song: When Gwin, the son of Nore, Over the nations of the North His cruel sceptre bore; The nob"
"My mother groaned, my father wept: Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping loud, Like a fiend hid in a cloud."
"O thou who passest thro' our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! thou"
"As I wandered the forest, The green leaves among, I heard a Wild Flower Singing a song. 'I slept in the earth In the sil"
"Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, mock on; 'tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows i"
"If it is true, what the Prophets write, That the heathen gods are all stocks and stones, Shall we, for the sake of being polite, Fe"
"And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures"
"Earth raised up her head From the darkness dread and drear, Her light fled, Stony, dread, And her locks covered with grey desp"
"The Maiden caught me in the wild, Where I was dancing merrily; She put me into her Cabinet, And lock'd me up with a golden key."
"My spectre around me night and day Like a wild beast guards my way. My emanation far within Weeps incessantly for my sin. A f"
"The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, and in a perilous path,"
"1. But Los saw the Female & pitied He embrac'd her, she wept, she refus'd In perverse and cruel delight She fled from his arms, y"
"The Caverns of the Grave I've seen, And these I show'd to England's Queen. But now the Caves of Hell I view, Who shall I dare to sh"
"A Robin Redbreast in a cage, Puts all Heaven in a rage. A skylark wounded on the wing Doth make a cherub cease to sing. He w"
"`Now Art has lost its mental charms France shall subdue the world in arms.' So spoke an Angel at my birth; Then said `Descend thou"
""Nought loves another as itself, Nor venerates another so, Nor is it possible to thought A greater than itself to know. "And,"
"Why was Cupid a boy, And why a boy was he? He should have been a girl, For aught that I can see. For he shoots with his bow,"
"Hear the voice of the Bard, Who present, past, and future, sees; Whose ears have heard The Holy Word That walked among the anc"
""I have no name; I am but two days old." What shall I call thee? "I happy am, Joy is my name." Sweet joy befall thee!"
"Whether on Ida's shady brow, Or in the chambers of the East, The chambers of the sun, that now From ancient melody have ceas'd;"
"I Earth was not: nor globes of attraction The will of the Immortal expanded Or contracted his all flexible senses. Death was not,"
"Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a so"
"When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue, Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep, So your ch"
"1. In terrors Los shrunk from his task: His great hammer fell from his hand: His fires beheld, and sickening, Hid their strong li"
"You don't believe -- I won't attempt to make ye: You are asleep -- I won't attempt to wake ye. Sleep on! sleep on! while in your pleasan"
"Silent, silent night, Quench the holy light Of thy torches bright; For possessed of Day Thousand spirits stray That swee"
"The sun does arise, And make happy the skies; The merry bells ring To welcome the Spring; The skylark and thrush, The bir"
"Samson, the strongest of the children of men, I sing; how he was foiled by woman's arts, by a false wife brought to the gates of death!"
"Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? Or wilt thou go ask the Mole: Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl?"
"To my friend Butts I write My first vision of light, On the yellow sands sitting. The sun was emitting His glorious beams"
"The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my visions greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like thine; Mine has a snub nose"
"When Klopstock England defied, Uprose William Blake in his pride; For old Nobodaddy aloft . . . and belch'd and cough'd; Then"
"My Spectre around me night and day Like a wild beast guards my way; My Emanation far within Weeps incessantly for my sin. A"
"I wandered through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow, A mark in every face I meet, Marks of weakness"
"Whate'er is born of mortal birth Must be consumed with the earth, To rise from generation free: Then what have I to do with thee?"
"Golden Apollo, that thro' heaven wide Scatter'st the rays of light, and truth's beams, In lucent words my darkling verses dight, An"
"Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what"
"I rose up at the dawn of day `Get thee away! get thee away! Pray'st thou for riches? Away! away! This is the Throne of Mammon grey."
"When silver snow decks Susan's clothes, And jewel hangs at th' shepherd's nose, The blushing bank is all my care, With hearth so re"