William Blake Poems (143 Poems)
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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 brought in iron baskets, his drink in cups of iron:Crown’d with a helmet and dark hair the nameless female stood;A … Continue reading
A War Song to Englishmen (William Blake Poems)
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,And casts them out upon the darken’d earth!Prepare, prepare! Prepare your hearts for Death’s cold hand! prepareYour souls … Continue reading
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 age of gold,Free from winter’s cold,Youth and maiden bright,To the holy light,Naked in the sunny beams delight. Once a … Continue reading
A Little Boy Lost (William Blake Poems)
v’Nought loves another as itself,Nor venerates another so,Nor is it possible to thoughtA greater than itself to know. ‘And, father, how can I love youOr any of my brothers more?I love you like the little birdThat picks up crumbs around … Continue reading
But in the Wine-presses the Human Grapes Sing not nor Dance (William Blake Poems)
But in the Wine-presses the human grapes sing not nor dance:They howl and writhe in shoals of torment, in fierce flames consuming,In chains of iron and in dungeons circled with ceaseless fires,In pits and dens and shades of death, in … Continue reading
Devine Image (William Blake Poems)
To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,All pray in their distress,And to these virtues of delightReturn their thankfulness. For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,Is God our Father dear;And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,Is man, his child and care. For Mercy has … Continue reading
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 faceSoft desires I can trace,Secret joys and secret smiles,Little pretty infant wiles. As thy softest limbs I feelSmiles as … Continue reading
Ah Sunflower (William Blake Poems)
Ah Sunflower, weary of time,Who countest the steps of the sun;Seeking after that sweet golden climeWhere the traveller’s journey is done; Where the Youth pined away with desire,And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,Arise from their graves, and aspireWhere my … Continue reading
A Divine Image (William Blake Poems)
Cruelty has a human heart,And Jealousy a human face;Terror the human form divine,And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron,The human form a fiery forge,The human face a furnace sealed,The human heart its hungry gorge. (William Blake)
The Book of Urizen: Chapter II (William Blake Poems)
1. Earth was not: nor globes of attraction The will of the Immortal expanded Or contracted his all flexible senses. Death was not, but eternal life sprung 2. The sound of a trumpet the heavens Awoke & vast clouds of … Continue reading
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