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 (143 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Book of Urizen: Chapter IV (William Blake Poems)
a 1. Los smitten with astonishment Frightend at the hurtling bones 2. And at the surging sulphureous Perturbed Immortal mad ...
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. ...
Preludium to Europe (William Blake Poems)
The nameless shadowy female rose from out the breast of Orc, Her snaky hair brandishing in the winds of Enitharmon; ...
The Book of Urizen: Chapter VI (William Blake Poems)
1. But Los saw the Female & pitied He embrac'd her, she wept, she refus'd In perverse and cruel delight ...
The Book of Urizen: Chapter III (William Blake Poems)
1. The voice ended, they saw his pale visage Emerge from the darkness; his hand On the rock of eternity ...
Now Art Has Lost Its Mental Charms (William Blake Poems)
`Now Art has lost its mental charms France shall subdue the world in arms.' So spoke an Angel at my ...
The Book of Urizen (excerpts) (William Blake Poems)
CHAPTER 1 Lo, a shadow of horror is risen In Eternity! Unknown, unprolific, Self-clos'd, all-repelling: what demon Hath form'd this ...
Milton: The Sky is an Immortal Tent Built by the Sons of Los (William Blake Poems)
The sky is an immortal tent built by the Sons of Los: And every space that a man views around ...
The Grey Monk (Excerpts) (William Blake Poems)
"I die, I die!" the Mother said, "My children die for lack of bread. What more has the merciless Tyrant ...
To Thomas Butts (William Blake Poems)
TO my friend Butts I write My first vision of light, On the yellow sands sitting. The sun was emitting ...
The Book of Urizen: Chapter VIII (William Blake Poems)
1. Urizen explor'd his dens Mountain, moor, & wilderness, With a globe of fire lighting his journey A fearful journey, ...
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, ...
The Book of Urizen: Preludium (William Blake Poems)
Of the primeval Priests assum'd power, When Eternals spurn'd back his religion; And gave him a place in the north, ...
The Book of Urizen: Chapter IX (William Blake Poems)
1. Then the Inhabitants of those Cities: Felt their Nerves change into Marrow And hardening Bones began In swift diseases ...
Jerusalem: I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep (William Blake Poems)
I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. ...
The Book of Urizen: Chapter I (William Blake Poems)
1. Lo, a shadow of horror is risen In Eternity! Unknown, unprolific! Self-closd, all-repelling: what Demon Hath form'd this abominable ...
If It Is True What the Prophets Write (William Blake Poems)
If it is true, what the Prophets write, That the heathen gods are all stocks and stones, Shall we, for ...
To the Muses (William Blake Poems)
Whether on Ida's shady brow, Or in the chambers of the East, The chambers of the sun, that now From ...
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 ...