America, A Prophecy (William Blake Poems)
The shadowy Daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc,When fourteen suns had faintly journey'd o'er his dark abode:His food she ...
William Blake Poems on Night (40 Poems)
A Little Girl Lost (William Blake Poems)
Children of the future age,Reading this indignant page,Know that in a former timeLove, sweet love, was thought a crime.In the ...
Cradle Song (William Blake Poems)
Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming in the joys of night;Sleep, sleep; in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.Sweet babe, in thy ...
The Book of Urizen: Chapter VII (William Blake Poems)
1. They named the child Orc, he grew Fed with milk of Enitharmon 2. Los awoke her; O sorrow & ...
The Book of Urizen: Chapter V (William Blake Poems)
1. In terrors Los shrunk from his task: His great hammer fell from his hand: His fires beheld, and sickening, ...
Gwin King of Norway (William Blake Poems)
Come, kings, and listen to my song: When Gwin, the son of Nore, Over the nations of the North His ...
Preludium to America (William Blake Poems)
The shadowy Daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc, When fourteen suns had faintly journey'd o'er his dark abode: His ...
The Four Zoas (excerpt) (William Blake Poems)
1.1 "What is the price of Experience? do men buy it for a song? 1.2 Or wisdom for a dance ...
Intorduction to the Songs of Experience (William Blake Poems)
Hear the voice of the Bard, Who present, past, and future, sees; Whose ears have heard The Holy Word That ...
Fair Elanor (William Blake Poems)
The bell struck one, and shook the silent tower; The graves give up their dead: fair Elenor Walk'd by the ...
The French Revolution (excerpt) (William Blake Poems)
Thee the ancientest peer, Duke of Burgundy, rose from the monarch's right hand, red as wines From his mountains; an ...
The Song of Los (William Blake Poems)
AFRICA I will sing you a song of Los. the Eternal Prophet: He sung it to four harps at the ...
Hear the Voice (William Blake Poems)
HEAR the voice of the Bard, Who present, past, and future, sees; Whose ears have heard The Holy Word That ...
The Wild Flower’s Song (William Blake Poems)
As I wandered the forest, The green leaves among, I heard a Wild Flower Singing a song. 'I slept in ...
Silent, Silent Night (William Blake Poems)
Silent, silent night, Quench the holy light Of thy torches bright; For possessed of Day Thousand spirits stray That sweet ...
Proverbs of Hell (Excerpt from The Marriage of Heaven and H (William Blake Poems)
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of ...
French Revolution, The (excerpt) (William Blake Poems)
84 Thee the ancientest peer, Duke of Burgundy, rose from the monarch's right hand, red as wines 85 From his ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake Poems)
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
Sleep! Sleep! Beauty Bright (William Blake Poems)
Sleep! sleep! beauty bright, Dreaming o'er the joys of night; Sleep! sleep! in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep. ...
Mad Song (William Blake Poems)
The wild winds weep And the night is a-cold; Come hither, Sleep, And my griefs infold: But lo! the morning ...
The Everlasting Gospel (William Blake Poems)
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like ...
Broken Love (William Blake Poems)
MY Spectre around me night and day Like a wild beast guards my way; My Emanation far within Weeps incessantly ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (excerpt) (William Blake Poems)
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of ...
Love and Harmony (William Blake Poems)
Love and harmony combine, And round our souls entwine While thy branches mix with mine, And our roots together join. ...
The Little Girl Found (William Blake Poems)
All the night in woe, Lyca's parents go: Over vallies deep. While the desarts weep. Tired and woe-begone. Hoarse with ...
The Little Girl Lost (William Blake Poems)
In futurity I prophesy see. That the earth from sleep. (Grave the sentence deep) Shall arise and seek For her ...
Night (William Blake Poems)
The sun descending in the west. The evening star does shine. The birds are silent in their nest, And I ...
Earth’s Answer (William Blake Poems)
Earth raised up her head. From the darkness dread & drear, Her light fled: Stony dread! And her locks cover'd ...
A Cradle Song (William Blake Poems)
Sweet dreams form a shade, O'er my lovely infants head. Sweet dreams of pleasant streams, By happy silent moony beams ...
A Dream (William Blake Poems)
Once a dream did weave a shade, O'er my Angel-guarded bed. That an Emmet lost it's way Where on grass ...