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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Keyword: WILLIAM BLAKE Matches Found: 419 18 AUGUST, 1985, by HERBERT R. COURSEN Poem Source First Line: Down the gray fingertips of london rides Last Line: A pigeon streak, innocent and white, %sends its sword down the stone of william blake A CHARACTER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her whole life is an epigram, smack-smooth, and neatly penned, Last Line: Platted quite neat to catch applause, with a sliding noose at the end. Variant Title(s): Her Whole Life Is An Epigram Subject(s): Bible; Mythology A CRADLE SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep! Sleep! Beauty bright Last Line: Heaven and earth of peace beguiles. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Mythology; Childhood A CRADLE SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet dreams, form a shade / o'er my lovely infant's head Last Line: Heaven and earth to peace beguiles. Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Mythology; Sleep; Nativity, The A DIVINE IMAGE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cruelty has a human heart Last Line: The human heart, its hungry gorge. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Religion; War; Theology A DREAM, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once a dream did weave a shade Last Line: "little wanderer, hie thee home!" Subject(s): Bible; Fireflies; Mythology; Glowworms A FAIRY STEPPED UPON MY KNEE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet's Biography A FAIRY STEPPED UPON MY KNEE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography A LITTLE BOY LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nought loves another as itself Last Line: Are such thing done on albion's shore? Subject(s): Bible; Death - Children; Mythology; Sacrifices; Death - Babies A LITTLE GIRL LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children of the future age Last Line: "that shakes the blossoms of my hoary hair!" Subject(s): Bible; Love - Complaints; Mythology A PETTY EPIGRAM FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THOSE WHO HAVE PAID GREAT SUMS IN THE VENETIAN & FLEMISH OO, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature & art in this together suit A PITIFUL CASE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The villain at the gallows tree Last Line: Michael angelo michael angelo Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792) A POISON TREE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I was angry with my friend Last Line: My foe outstretched beneath the tree. Subject(s): Anger; Bible; Enemies; Environment; Hate; Men; Mythology; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A WAR SONG TO ENGLISHMEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prepare, prepare the iron helm of war Last Line: Prepare, prepare. Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Patriotism; War; English A WOMAN SCALY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A woman scaly and a man all hairy Last Line: Will find the womans scales scrape off the mans hairs Subject(s): Bible; Mythology ABSTINENCE SOWS SAND ALL OVER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography ABSTINENCE SOWS SAND ALL OVER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography AFTER A PROVERB BY WILLIAM BLAKE, by DICK ALLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every day, through lightning over the trees Last Line: Take a deep breath, and now a deeper one AFTER READING WILLIAM BLAKE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Those who cut a worm in twain Last Line: Thrusts the spear into jesus' side. Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Jesus Christ; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect AFTER WILLIAM BLAKE: I. FRONTISPIECE, SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by COLIN WAY REID Poem Source First Line: The piper holds a reeded pipe Last Line: The trees stretch up their nether hands; %the cloud puffs east, and music stands AFTER WILLIAM BLAKE: II. TITLE PAGE, SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by COLIN WAY REID Poem Source First Line: The tree of innocence, entwined Last Line: Lastly, crucially, the time: %seventeen hundred and eighty-nine AFTER WILLIAM BLAKE: III. 'INFANT JOY', SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by COLIN WAY REID Poem Source First Line: Joy rests in something like a flower Last Line: The babe to rest in its suspense; %like a cloud's but far more dense AFTER WILLIAM BLAKE: IV. TITLE PAGE, SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by COLIN WAY REID Poem Source First Line: Once when he 'stain'd the water clear' Last Line: But blake has put it in clear day, %to show that death is worse this way AFTER WILLIAM BLAKE: V. 'THE TYGER' AND 'THE SICK ROSE',..., by COLIN WAY REID Poem Source First Line: The tyger blazoned on the page Last Line: But of the artists whom we see, %none lifts his wand and pipe like thee ALBION'S SPECTRE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But the spectre, like a hoar-frost and a mildew, rose over albion Subject(s): Bible; Mythology ALL PICTURES THATS PANTED WITH SENSE & WITH THOUGHT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography ALL RELIGIONS ARE ONE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the true method of knowledge is experiment, the true Last Line: The true man is the source he being the poetic genius Subject(s): Bible; Mythology AMERICA A PROPHECY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadowy daughter of urthona stood before red orc Last Line: But tho' obscur'd, this is the form of the angelic land. Subject(s): American Revolution; Bible; Mythology; Prophecy & Prophets AN ANCIENT PROVERB, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Remove away that blackning church Last Line: Youll quite remove the ancient curse Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Proverbs; Maxims; Adages AN ANSWER TO THE PARSON, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why of the sheep do you not learn peace?' Last Line: Because I dont want you to shear my fleece Subject(s): Bible; Mythology AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come knock your heads against this stone Last Line: For sorrow that poor john thompson's gone. Subject(s): Bible; Epitaphs; Mythology AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was buried near this dike Last Line: That my friends may weep as much as they like Subject(s): Bible; Epitaphs; Mythology AN IMITATION OF SPENCER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Golden apollo, that thro' heaven wide Last Line: Or does th' afflicted man thy heav'nly bosom move? Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) AN OLD MAID EARLY, E'ER I KNEW, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography AN OLD MAID EARLY, E'ER I KNEW, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography AND HIS LEGS CARRIED IT LIKE A LONG FORK, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography AND IN MELODIOUS ACCENTS I, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology ANGER AND WRATH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anger and wrath my bosom rends Last Line: I find them the errors of the foe Subject(s): Anger; Bible; Mythology ANNOTATIONS TO SWEDENBORG'S WISDOM OF ANGELS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There can be no good will Subject(s): Bible; Mythology APPARITION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All rose before the aged apparition Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Winter ARE NOT THE JOYS OF MORNING SWEETER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography ARE NOT THE JOYS OF MORNING SWEETER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography ART OF BREATHING (FOR WILLIAM BLAKE), by DOUGLAS S JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Teach to me the art of breathing Last Line: Knowing nothing of music ARTS OF DEATH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then left the sons of urizen the plow & harrow, the loom Subject(s): Bible; Mythology AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To see a world in a grain of sand Last Line: To those who dwell in realms of day Variant Title(s): Blake's Testament;what A Wonderful World Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Freedom; Imagination; Innocence; Mythology; Religion; Vision; Liberty; Fancy; Theology BLAKE, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They win who never near the goal Last Line: He made a world his own. Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827) BLAKE'S APOLOGY FOR HIS CATALOGUE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Having given great offence by writing in prose Last Line: That I may put them in mind of their latter ends Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Poetry & Poets BLIND MAN'S BUFF, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When silver snow decks susan's cloaths Last Line: Then laws were made to keep fair play. Variant Title(s): Song Third By An Old Shepherd Subject(s): Bible; Games; Mythology; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements BROTHERHOOD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus replied: 'fear not albion: unless I die thou canst not live Subject(s): Bible; Mythology BUILDERS OF GOLGONOOZA, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What are those golden builders doing? Where was the burying-place? Subject(s): Bible; Mythology CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Can I see a falling tear Subject(s): Bible; Mythology CHILDREN OF BLAKE (FROM TYGER TWO), by ADRIAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: The children of blake dance in their thousands Last Line: Dance to the music of william blake CONTEMPLATION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who is this, with that unerring step dares tempt the wilds Last Line: By sorrow on a tomb-stone! Subject(s): Bible; Mythology COSWAY FRAZER & BALDWIN OF EGYPTS LAKE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography COUCH OF DEATH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The veiled evening walked solitary down the western hills Last Line: Over the couch of death, and the youth breathes out his soul with joy into eternity Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Plague COUPLET, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great things are done when men and mountains meet Last Line: This is not done by jostling in the street Variant Title(s): To God;great Things Are Done Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Rudeness; Bad Manners CR--- LOVES ARTISTS AS HE LOVES HIS MEAT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography CROMEK, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A petty sneaking knave I knew Last Line: O mr cromek, how do ye do? Subject(s): Bible; Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812); Mythology CROMEK SPEAKS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I always take my judgment from a fool Last Line: Amiable state he cannot feel at all Subject(s): Bible; Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812); Mythology CRY OF LOS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care Subject(s): Bible; Mythology CUPID, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why was cupid a boy Last Line: And away fled every joy. Variant Title(s): Why Was Cupid A Boy Subject(s): Bible; Cupid; Mythology; Eros DAY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun arises in the east Last Line: Crownd with warlike fires & raging desires Subject(s): Bible; Mythology DAYBREAK, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology DEDICATION OF THE DESIGNS TO BLAIR'S GRAVE: TO THE QUEEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The door of death is made of gold Last Line: "the blossoms of eternal life!" Subject(s): Bible; Blair, Robert (1699-1746); Mythology DELICATE HANDS & HEADS WILL NEVER APPEAR, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet's Biography DESIRE OF MAN BEING INFINITE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Science DIVINE IMAGE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus said, 'wouldst thou love one who never died' Last Line: Jesus will appear; and so he who wishes to see a vision, a perfect whole, %must see it in its minute Variant Title(s): Written 181 Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Mythology; Religion EARTH'S ANSWER, by EMILY HIESTAND Poem Source First Line: Another night of galileo arguing with william blake- Last Line: Only lead us not, we pray, into petty thieving. EARTH'S ANSWER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth rais'd up her head / from the darkness dread and drear Last Line: "that free love with bondage bound." Subject(s): Bible; Earth; Mythology; Religion; World; Theology END OF THE SONG OF JERUSALEM, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All human forms identified, even tree, metal, earth, and stone; all Subject(s): Bible; Mythology ENGLISH ENCOURAGEMENT OF ART (FIRST READING), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you mean to please every body you will Last Line: Of lighting a lamp when you dont wish to see Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bible; Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812); Mythology ENGLISH ENCOURAGEMENT OF ART: CROMEK'S OPINIONS PUT INTO RHYME, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you mean to please every body you will EPIGRAM, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of h's birth this was the happy lot Last Line: His mother on his father him begot Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology EPIGRAM, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The errors of a wise man make your rule Last Line: Rather than the perfections of a fool Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology EPILOGUE, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My adventures now are ended Last Line: And give my love to william blake EPITAPH: JOHN TROT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies john trot, the friend of all mankind Last Line: But now they stand in every bodies way Subject(s): Bible; Epitaphs; Mythology ETHINTHUS, QUEEN OF WATERS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ethinthus, queen of water, how thou shinest in the sky! Last Line: Like the gay fishes on the wave, when the cold moon drinks the dew. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology EUROPE A PROPHECY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five windows light the cavern'd man: thro' one he breathes the air Last Line: Call'd all his sons to the strife of blood. Subject(s): Bible; Europe; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mythology EVENING (AFTER WILLIAM BLAKE), by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, rosy angel, thy coronet donning Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 1), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If moral virtue was christianity %christ's pretensions were all vanity Last Line: Both read the bible day & night, %but thou read'st black where I read white Variant Title(s): The New La Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Humility; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Mythology; Pride; Vanity EXPERIMENT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast a lap full of seed Last Line: Some stinking weed Variant Title(s): "o Lapwing;""thou Hast A Lap Full Of Seed""; Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Plants; Seeds; Planting; Planters FAIR ELEANOR, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bell struck one, and shook the silent tower Last Line: She hugg'd it to her breast, and groan'd her last. Subject(s): Bible; Love; Mythology FEMALE WILL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What may man be? But what may woman be Subject(s): Bible; Mythology FLORENTINE INGRATITUDE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir joshua sent his own portrait to Last Line: Never can have any to sir jehoshuan Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792) FOUR ZOAS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the aged mother which shook the heavens with wrath Last Line: The dark relisions are departed and sweet science reigns Variant Title(s): Vala, Or The Four Zoas, Sels Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter FOURFOLD AND TWOFOLD VISION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The visions of eternity, by reason of narrowed perceptions Subject(s): Bible; Mythology FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit, who lov'st britannia's isle Subject(s): Bible; Mythology FROM BLAKE'S ENGRAVING OF THE LAOCOON, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spiritual war: isreal delivered from egypt is art deliver'd from natre Subject(s): Bible; Mythology FROM THE ANNOTATIONS TO BISHOP BERKELEY'S SIRIS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus considered imagination to be the real man and says Last Line: Which blinds the eye of imagination, the real man Subject(s): Bible; Mythology GIVE PENSIONS TO THE LEARNED PIG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography GNOMIC VERSES, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology GREAT MEN AND FOOLS DO OFTEN ME INSPIRE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography GROWN OLD IN LOVE FROM SEVEN TILL SEVEN TIMES SEVEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography GROWN OLD IN LOVE FROM SEVEN TILL SEVEN TIMES SEVEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography GWIN, KING OF NORWAY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, kings and listen to my song Last Line: The pleasant south country. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Revolutions HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM BLAKE (FROM TYGER TWO), by ADRIAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: When he was alive everybody used to put him down Last Line: Happy birthday william blake HAPPY SONGS, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology HE HAS OBSERV'D THE GOLDEN RULE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet's Biography HE WHO SEES THE INFINITE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Science HE'S A BLOCKHEAD WHO WANTS A PROOF OF WHAT HE CAN'T PERCEIVE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography HIS WHOLE LIFE IS AN EPIGRAM SMART, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology HOLINESS OF MINUTE PARTICULARS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And many conversed on these things as they labour'd at the furrow Subject(s): Bible; Mythology HOLY THURSDAY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Is this a holy thing to see Last Line: Nor poverty the mind appall. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Bible; Holidays; Mythology; Poverty HOLY THURSDAY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a holy thursday, their innocent faces clean Last Line: Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door Subject(s): Ascension Day; Bible; Holidays; Mythology; Poverty HONOUR AND GENIUS IS ALL I ASK, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology HOW CAME PRIDE IN MAN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography HOW TO KNOW LOVE FROM DECEIT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love to faults is always blind Last Line: And forges fetters for the mind Subject(s): Bible; Duplicity; Love - Nature Of; Mythology; Deceit HUMAN IMAGE, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology HUMILITY AND DOUBT, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God wants not man to humble himself Subject(s): Bible; Mythology I ASKED MY DEAR FRIEND ORATOR PRIGG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography I COME IN SELF-ANNIHILATION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Till generation is swallowed up in regeneration I FEARD THE FURY OF MY WIND, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography I FEARD THE FURY OF MY WIND, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography I HEARD AN ANGEL SINGING, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography I HEARD AN ANGEL SINGING, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography I LAID ME DOWN UPON A BANK, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography I LAID ME DOWN UPON A BANK, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography I ROSE UP AT THE DAWN OF DAY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography I RUBENS AM A STATESMAN & A SAINT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography IDOLATRY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it is true what the prophets write IF I E'ER GROW TO A MAN'S ESTATE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE POETIC, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Science IF MEN WILL ACT LIKE A MAID SMILING OVER A CHURN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography IF WILLIAM BLAKE WERE A TV CRITIC, by FRANK JACOBS Poem Source First Line: Buckley! Buckley, on my tube Last Line: Else I'll give my set a click %and watch instead a bogart flick IF YOU PLAY A GAME OF CHANCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you play a game of chance, know before you begin Last Line: If you are benevolent you will never win Subject(s): Bible; Gambling; Mythology; Wagering; Betting IMITATION OF POPE: A COMPLIMENT TO THE LADIES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wondrous the gods, more wondrous are the men Last Line: But ah more wondrous still the charming fair Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) IMMORTAL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The immortal stood frozen amidst Subject(s): Bible; Mythology IN A MYRTLE SHADE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When should I be bound to thee Last Line: And grey hairs are on my head. Subject(s): Aging; Bible; Myrtle Trees; Mythology; Religion; Theology IN A WIFE I WOULD DESIRE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography IN A WIFE I WOULD DESIRE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography INFANT JOY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have no name: / I am but two days old Last Line: Sweet joy befall thee! Variant Title(s): Joy Is My Name Subject(s): Babies; Bible; Happiness; Mythology; Infants; Joy; Delight INFANT SORROW (MS. VERSION), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother groan'd, my father wept Last Line: But the time of youth is fled, %and grey hairs are on my head Subject(s): Bible; Children; Mythology INFANT SORROW, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother groaned, my father wept Last Line: To sulk upon my mother's breast. Subject(s): Bible; Birth; Mythology; Time; Child Birth; Midwifery INFINITY, by ADDIE LEE Poem Source First Line: William blake wrote Last Line: Snowy white calla lilies. %in her austerity lives a dark peace ISLAND IN THE MOON (IN A MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the moon, is a certain island near by a mighty continent Last Line: Glad you are come said quid Subject(s): Bible; Mythology JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a void, outside of existence, which if entered into Last Line: And I heard their emanations they are named jerusalem Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 1, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There is a void, outside of existence, which if entered into Last Line: Jesus. Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 2, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every ornament of perfection, and every labour of love Last Line: Is an arrow from the almighties bow! Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 3, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But los, who is the vehicular form of strong urthona Last Line: In englands green & pleasant bowers. Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 4, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spectres of albions twelve sons revolve mightily Last Line: And I heard the name of their emanations they are named jerusalem Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JOB'S WIFE SPEAKS, by CYNTHIA TEDESCO Poem Source First Line: It was I; not friends, who comforted him Last Line: Only william blake's drawings tell my story. %was it I, or god, in sickness and in health? JOY IN THE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou perceivest the flowers put forth their precious odours Subject(s): Bible; Mythology KING EDWARD THE THIRD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, to whose fury the nations are Last Line: "fair albion's shore, and all her families." Subject(s): Bible; Edward Iii, King Of England (1312-1377); Freedom; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mythology; Liberty LACEDEMONIAN INSTRUCTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there Last Line: A fool tangled in a religious snare Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Religion; Theology LAFAYETTE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the brothels of paris be opened Last Line: And a great many suckers grow all around Subject(s): Bible; Lafayette, Marie Joseph, Marquis De; Mythology; Paris, France LAOCOON, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jehovah and his two sons satan & adam as they were copied from Last Line: No secresy in art Subject(s): Bible; Mythology LAUGHING SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy Last Line: "to sing the sweet chorus of ""ha, ha, he!" Variant Title(s): Laughing Song Subject(s): Bible; Forests; Laughter; Mythology; Spring; Woods LIFETIME: EPITAPH FOR WILLIAM BLAKE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I lived; I toiled - day in, day out Last Line: I, who am come to this? Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter LITTLE PHOEBUS CAME STRUTTING IN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology LO, THE BAT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, the bat with leathern wing Last Line: Lift up my roman petticoat, %and kiss my roman anus!' LONDON, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But most the midnight's harlot's curse Last Line: And blasts the new-born infant's tear LONDON BRIDGE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: London bridge is broken down Last Line: With a gay lady Subject(s): Bible; Mythology LONDON, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I wander thro' each charter'd street Last Line: And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse. Variant Title(s): London Subject(s): Bible; Corruption In Politics; London; Mythology; Poverty; Voices LONG JOHN BROWN AND LITTLE MARY BELL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little mary bell had a fairy in a nut Last Line: And there goes miss bell with her fusty old nut Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sex LOVE'S SECRET, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never seek to tell thy love Last Line: He took her with a sigh. Subject(s): Bible; Desire; Love; Mythology LULLABY FOR WILLIAM BLAKE, by ADRIAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Blakehead, babyhead Last Line: I love you MAD SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild winds weep Last Line: With frantic pain. Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Insanity; Mythology; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness MADMAN I HAVE BEEN CALLED, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madman I have been called; fool they call thee Last Line: I wonder which they envy thee or me Subject(s): Bible; Depression, Mental; Mythology; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress MALEVOLENCE: A WATER COLOUR BY WILLIAM BLAKE, by MADELINE MARCOTTE Poem Source First Line: One reads sadness in the knitted brow and down-turned lips Last Line: She calls it mother love. She does MAN'S SPECTRE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each man is in his spectre's power Subject(s): Bible; Mythology MARRIAGE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When a man has married a wife Last Line: Glued together Variant Title(s): "when A Man Has Married A Wife, He Finds Out Whether""; Subject(s): Bible; Marriage; Mythology; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE OF WILLIAM BLAKE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the day of his death he stopped work and turned to catherine Last Line: Coming to him, and would not be long now.' Subject(s): Marriage MARY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet mary, the first time she ever was there Last Line: That shall never be quiet till laid on its bier Subject(s): Bible; Despair; Mythology MEN AND STATES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the pilgrim passes while the country permanent remains Subject(s): Bible; Mythology MERLIN'S PROPHESY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The harvest shall flourish in wintry weather Last Line: Before two virgins can meet together Variant Title(s): Merlin's Prophecy Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Prophecy & Prophets MILTON, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stolen and perverted writings of homer & ovid: of plato & cicero Last Line: To go forth to the great harvest & vintage of the nations Subject(s): Bible; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mythology MOCK ON, MOCK ON! VOLTAIRE, ROUSSEAU, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography MOCK ON, MOCK ON! VOLTAIRE, ROUSSEAU, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography MORE SOME; DICTA OF WILLIAM BLAKE, by DAVID BROMIGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The authors are in the alphabet MORNING COMES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology MOTTO TO THE SONGS OF INNOCENCE & OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The good are attracted by men's perceptions Last Line: And the eagle is known from the owl Subject(s): Bible; Mythology MR. CROMEK TO MR. STOTHARD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fortune favours the brave old proverbs say Last Line: Turn thro the iron gate down sneaking lane Subject(s): Bible; Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812); Fortune; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834) MR. STOTHARD TO MR. CROMEK, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For fortunes favours you your riches bring Last Line: Sneaking & backbiting & odds & ends Subject(s): Bible; Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812); Fortune; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834) MY PRETTY ROSE TREE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A flower was offer'd to me Last Line: And her thorns were my only delight. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Mythology; Roses MY SPECTER AROUND ME NIGHT AND DAY: POSTCRIPT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet's Biography First Line: O'er my sins thou sit & moan MY SPECTRE AROUND ME NIGHT & DAY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography MY SPECTRE AROUND ME NIGHT & DAY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography MY TITLE AS A GENIUS THUS IS PROVD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography NAIL HIS NECK TO THE CROSS, NAIL IT WITH A NAIL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography NEVER PAIN TO TELL THY LOVE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography NEW ADAMITES, by GREGORY N. GABBARD Poem Source First Line: William blake's wife Last Line: Likewise: you'll find it true! Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Marriage NIGHT'S MUSEUM, by LAWRENCE RAAB Poem Source First Line: William blake saw an angel Last Line: And these %are the planets on their strings NIGHT, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun descending in the west Last Line: As I guard o'er the fold.' Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Night; Bedtime NO REAL STYLE OF COLOURING EVER APPEARS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography NOW ART HAS LOST ITS MENTAL CHARMS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography NOW I A FOURSOME VISION SEE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When voices of children are heard on the green Last Line: And your winter and night in disguise. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Holidays; Mythology; New Year; Play; Time; Childhood NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the voices of children are heard on the green / and laughing is heard Last Line: And all the hills ecchoed Variant Title(s): Play Time Subject(s): Bible; Children; Evening; Innocence; Mythology; Play; Time; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight O DEAR MOTHER OUTLINE OF KNOWLEDGE MOST SAGE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography O LAPWING, THOU FLIEST AROUND THE HEATH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography O LAPWING, THOU FLIEST AROUND THE HEATH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography OLD ACQUAINTANCE WELL RENEW, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography OLD CORRUPTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When old corruption first begun Last Line: He first discovered guts! ON A PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM BLAKE BY FRANCIS BACON, by PAUL CLARK Poem Source First Line: His neck is an upturned anvil Last Line: Now its eyes are closed behind cuttlefish lids Subject(s): Depression, Mental ON ANOTHER'S SORROW, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can I see another's woe Last Line: He doth sit by us and moan. Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Mythology; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology ON ART AND ARTISTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Denegrade first the arts if you'd mankind degrade Subject(s): Bible; Mythology ON F----- & S-----, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found them blind I taught them how to see Last Line: A fool to a bolt a knave to a glass of gin Subject(s): Bible; Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834) ON FRIENDS AND FOES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am no homer's hero you all know Last Line: And becomes the enemy & betrayer of his friends Variant Title(s): I Am No Homer's Hero Subject(s): Bible; Enemies; Friendship; Mythology ON H---- THE PICK THANK, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I write the rascal thanks till he & I Last Line: With thanks & compliments are quite drawn dry Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology ON H----YS FRIENDSHIP, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When h----y finds out what you cannot do Last Line: Hired a villain to bereave my life Subject(s): Bible; Friendship; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology ON HAYLEY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To forgive enemies h-- does pretend Last Line: Do be my enemy -- for friendship's sake Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Hypocrisy; Mythology; Villains In Literature ON HOMER'S POETRY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every poem must necessarily be a perfect unity, but why Last Line: The classics, it is the classics! & not goths nor monks, that desolate europe with wars Subject(s): Bible; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology; Poetry And Poets ON S-----, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You say reserve & modesty he has Last Line: By sweet reserve & modesty get fat Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834) ON SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can there be anything more mean Last Line: When he praises michael angelo Subject(s): Bible; Hypocrisy; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792); Villains In Literature ON THE GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT GIVEN BY ENGLISH NOBILITY & GENTRY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the ignorant savage will sell his own wife Last Line: To give these rascals a dose of cawdle Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Paintings & Painters ON THE VIRGINITY OF THE VIRGIN MARY AND JOHANNA SOUTHCOTT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er is done to her she cannot know Last Line: No one can take the pride no one the shame Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Virginity; Vestals ON THOMAS PHILLIPS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: P --- loved me, not as he lovd his friends ON VIRGIL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sacred truth has pronounced that greece and rome Last Line: Gothic is living form Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Virgil (70-19 B.c.) ON WILLIAM HAINES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sussex men are noted fools OPPORTUNITY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He who binds to himself a joy Last Line: You can never wipe off the tears of woe. Variant Title(s): Eternity;several Questions Answered;epigram Subject(s): Bible; Future Life; Mythology; Opportunity; Retribution; Eternity; After Life PHYSIOLOGY OF WILLIAM BLAKE: 1, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is something pouring from the left fundibulum Last Line: The ice comes back. Parallel patterns, like a crow in flight PHYSIOLOGY OF WILLIAM BLAKE: 10, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is after all the apparencies. It is after all Last Line: That really is what they said PHYSIOLOGY OF WILLIAM BLAKE: 11, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The first cathedral previous to any mud caked anklebone Last Line: Are strictly momentary and passionate and vague PHYSIOLOGY OF WILLIAM BLAKE: 12, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wanting to know about it the blood of old Last Line: They caught like meek diseases from the sound of rain PHYSIOLOGY OF WILLIAM BLAKE: 13, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It could not cut the vanity the haughtiest Last Line: Intense flame inside the stone the wise call water PHYSIOLOGY OF WILLIAM BLAKE: 2, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gruesome if forgotten, the sulc is now. This cleft Last Line: O lord jesus look my knees, round and juicy golden oozes PHYSIOLOGY OF WILLIAM BLAKE: 3, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And so with america, hymeneal, hiems Last Line: Turning our bodies glad from light to light PHYSIOLOGY OF WILLIAM BLAKE: 4, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose they are causes Last Line: Hide in my touch. I am not to find PHYSIOLOGY OF WILLIAM BLAKE: 5, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are the nearer stretches of the folded blanket Last Line: Dear friend, trying to keep in touch with all the transformation PHYSIOLOGY OF WILLIAM BLAKE: 6, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That the phone rings all day long Last Line: Here is the answer. The seed gets in your hair PHYSIOLOGY OF WILLIAM BLAKE: 7, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Are these the norms by which we know Last Line: Are these the norms by which we know our only earth? PHYSIOLOGY OF WILLIAM BLAKE: 8, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hallway crowded with alchemicals Last Line: If there were any other color it would be me.' PHYSIOLOGY OF WILLIAM BLAKE: 9, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then it is a fish that swims inside and doesn't veer Last Line: As quick flags of triumph or surrender POETICAL SKETCHES, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology PRAYER IS THE STUDY OF ART, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Prayer; Science PRETENCES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A pretence of art ot destroy aart, a pretence of liberty Subject(s): Bible; Mythology PROLOGUE TO KING JOHN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Justice hath heaved a sword to plunge in albion's breast Last Line: Sing as to the rising year! Subject(s): American Revolution; Bible; Mythology PROLOGUE. INTENDED FOR A DRAMATIC PIECE OF KING EDWARD THE FOURTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O for a voice like thunder, and a tongue Last Line: Hear it not, heaven, thy ministers have done it! Subject(s): American Revolution; Bible; Mythology PROPHETIC BOOKS, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology PROVERBS FROM HELL, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging Last Line: Exuberance is beauty Subject(s): Bible; Men; Mythology PUNISHMENT AND FORGIVENESS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why should punishment weave the veil with iron wheels of war Subject(s): Bible; Mythology RAFAEL SUBLIME MAJESTIC GRACEFUL WISE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography REASON, OR THE RATION OF ALL WE HAVE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Science REMEMBRANCE OF SIN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, o thou lamb of god, and take away the remembrance of sin Subject(s): Bible; Mythology RICHES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The countless gold of a merry heart Last Line: Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury Subject(s): Bible; Happiness; Mythology; Joy; Delight SAMSON, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Samson, the strongest of the children of men Last Line: Secret; but, if thou wilt, offer an offering unto the lord Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Samson SESTINA AFTER AN ETCHING BY WILLIAM BLAKE, by CAROLYNE WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: The naked lovers sprawl on a kelp-green shore Last Line: And lovers turned away from subterfuge to honest beds SILENT MOVES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sleep SILENT SILENT NIGHT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography SILENT SILENT NIGHT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography SIR JOSHUA PRAISED RUBENS WITH A SMILE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography SIR JOSHUA PRAISES MICHAEL ANGELO, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When sir joshua reynolds died Last Line: And all his pictures faded Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792) SOFT SNOW, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked abroad on a snowy day Last Line: And the winter called it a dreadful crime. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Snow; Winter SOME MEN CREATED FOR DESTRUCTION COME, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography SOME PEOPLE ADMIRE THE WORK OF A FOOL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love and harmony combine Last Line: And doth among our branches play. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My silks and fine array Last Line: True love doth pass away! Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the jocund dance Last Line: But thou art all to me. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh from the dewy hill, the merry year Last Line: Burns in my soul, and does my song inspire. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet I roamed from field to field Last Line: And mocks my loss of liberty. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My silks and fine array Last Line: True love doth pass away! Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When early morn walks forth in sober grey Last Line: And then I'd die in peace, and be forgot. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the jocund dance Last Line: But thou art all to me. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh from the dewy hill, the merry year Last Line: Burns in my soul, and does my song inspire. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet I roamed from field to field Last Line: And mocks my loss of liberty. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou the golden fruit dost bear Last Line: There is love: I hear his tongue Subject(s): Bible; Mythology SONG BY AN OLD SHEPHERD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When silver snow decks sylvio's clothes Last Line: That makes our limbs quake, if our hearts be warm. Variant Title(s): Song 3d By An Old Shepherd Subject(s): Bible; Mythology SONG FIRST BY A SHEPHERD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, stranger, to this place Last Line: The jewel health adorns her neck. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology SONG SUNG AT THE FEAST OF LOS AND ENITHARMON, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain called out to the mountain: 'awake o brother mountain! Subject(s): Bible; Mythology SONGS OF EXPERIENCE: INTRODUCTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear the voice of the bard! / who present, past, & future sees Last Line: "is giv'n thee till the break of day." Variant Title(s): The Poet's Voice;the Voice Of The Bard;the Bard;the Ancient Trees;introduction Subject(s): Bards; Bible; Mythology; Religion; Theology SONGS OF INNOCENCE: INTRODUCTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Piping down the valleys wild Last Line: Every child may joy to hear. Variant Title(s): Child And The Piper;the Happy Piper;pipe A Song;reeds Of Innocence;a Song Of Singing;the Piper Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Innocence; Music & Musicians; Mythology; Pipers; Vision; Fancy SPRING, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the flute! Last Line: Merrily, merrily, to welcome in the year. Variant Title(s): Spring Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Spring SWELLED LIMBS WITH NO OUTLINE THAT YOU CAN DESCRY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography TEMPER, TEMPER, by ALAN CHARLES BROWNJOHN Poem Source First Line: I chase a bug around a tree Last Line: The buddha, or of william blake TERROR IN THE HOUSE DOES ROAR, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography THE ANGEL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I asked a thief to steal me a peach Last Line: Enjoyed the lady. Variant Title(s): "i Asked A Thief To Steal Me A Peach"";i Asked A Thief; Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Crime & Criminals; Mythology THE ANGEL THAT PRESIDED O'ER MY BIRTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography THE ANGEL THAT PRESIDED O'ER MY BIRTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography THE ANGEL, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a dream! What can it mean Last Line: And grey hairs were on my head. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where thou dwellest, in what grove Last Line: Among green leaves & blossoms sweet Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Mythology THE BLOSSOM, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Merry merry sparrow! Last Line: Near my bosom. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Flowers; Mythology THE BOOK OF AHANIA, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fuzon, on a chariot iron wing'd Last Line: Before they see the light. Subject(s): Bible; Lament; Mythology THE BOOK OF LOS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eno, aged mother Last Line: In darkness and deep clouds involvd. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THE BOOK OF THEL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The daughters of the seraphim led round their sunny flocks Last Line: Or love in a golden bowl? Variant Title(s): The Lament Of Thel Subject(s): Bible; Love; Mythology THE CAVERNS OF THE GRAVE I'VE SEEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A little black thing among the snow Last Line: "who make up a heaven of our misery." Subject(s): Bible; Child Labor; Chimney Sweepers & Chimneys; Mythology THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When my mother died I was very young Last Line: So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm. Subject(s): Bible; Child Labor; Chimney Sweepers & Chimneys; Mythology THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Love seeketh not itself to please Last Line: "and builds a hell in heaven's despite." Variant Title(s): True And False Love Subject(s): Bible; Humility; Love; Mythology THE CRIPPLE EVERY STEP DRUDGES & LABOURS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography THE CRYSTAL CABINET, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The maiden caught me in the wild Last Line: I fill'd with woes the passing wind. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THE DEFILED SANCTUARY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a chapel all of gold Last Line: And laid me down among the swine. Variant Title(s): "i Saw A Chapel All Of Gold"";i Saw A Chapel; Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THE DIVINE IMAGE, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To mercy pity peace and love Last Line: There god is dwelling too. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Religion; Theology THE ECHOING GREEN, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun does arise, / and make happy the skies Last Line: On the darkening green. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Mythology; Night; Play; Childhood; Bedtime THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 2), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was jesus humble or did he Last Line: Or call men wise for not believing Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Humility; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mythology; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL: PREFACE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will tell you what joseph of arimathea Last Line: What I called humility they called pride Subject(s): Bible; Humility; Mythology THE FAIRY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither my sparrows Last Line: Of the marriage ring Variant Title(s): The Marriage Ring Subject(s): Bible; Fairies; Marriage; Mythology; Elves; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FIRST BOOK OF URIZEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of the primeval priest's assum'd power Last Line: 9. And the salt ocean rolled englob'd Variant Title(s): The Book Of Urizen Subject(s): Bible; Creation; Judgment Day; Mythology; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE FLY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Little fly, / thy summer's play Last Line: Or if I die. Subject(s): Bible; Flies; Mythology THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE FIFTH AND SIXTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Infected mad he danced on his mountains high & dark as heaven Last Line: In their progressions & preparing urizens path before him Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE FIRST AND SECOND, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the aged mother which shook the heavens with wrath Last Line: Vala Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE NINTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And los & enitharmon builded jerusalem weeping Last Line: The dark religions are departed & sweet science reigns Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then urizen arose the spectre fled & tharmas fled Last Line: Babylon again in infancy calld natural religion Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE THIRD AND FOURTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now sat the king of light on high upon his starry throne Last Line: Into unusual forms dancing & howling stamping the abyss Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: THE SONG OF LOS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will sing you a song of los, the eternal prophet Last Line: Urizen wept. Subject(s): Africa; Asia; Bible; Mythology; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dead brood over europe: the cloud and vision descends over cheerful france Last Line: Morning's beam. Subject(s): Bible; French Revolution (1789); Mythology THE GARDEN OF LOVE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the garden of love Last Line: And binding with briars my joys & desires. Subject(s): Bible; Despair; Mythology; Religion; Theology THE GATES OF PARADISE; FOR CHILDREN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is man! Last Line: 16 I have said to the worm, thou art my mother & my sister Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THE GATES OF PARADISE; FOR THE SEXES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mutual forgiveness of each vice Last Line: The lost travellers dream under the hill Subject(s): Bible; Heaven; Mythology; Paradise THE GHOST OF ABEL; A RELATION IN THE VISIONS OF JEHOVAH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What doest thou here, elijah? Last Line: Mercy seat: each in his station fixt in the firmament by peace brotherhood and love. Subject(s): Abel; Bible; Mythology THE GOLDEN NET, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three virgins at the break of day Last Line: O when will the morning rise Subject(s): Bible; Love; Mythology THE GREY MONK, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I die, I die!' the mother said Last Line: And became a tyrant in his stead Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Fancy THE HEBREW NATION DID NOT WRITE IT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet's Biography THE HUMAN ABSTRACT, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Pity would be nor more / if we did not make somebody poor Last Line: There grows one in the human brain. Subject(s): Bible; Cruelty; Hypocrisy; Mythology THE LAMB, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Little lamb, who made thee: / dost thou know who made thee? Last Line: Little lamb god bless thee. Variant Title(s): The Lamb Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Lambs; Mythology; Religion; Theology THE LAND OF DREAMS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, awake, my little boy! Last Line: "above the light of the morning star." Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sleep THE LILY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The modest rose puts forth a thorn Last Line: Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Lilies; Mythology THE LITTLE BLACK BOY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My mother bore me in the southern wild Last Line: And be like him, and he will then love me. Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Bible; Brotherhood; Freedom; Mothers; Mythology; Racism; Liberty; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE LITTLE BOY FOUND, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The little boy lost in the lonely fen Last Line: Her little boy weeping sought. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THE LITTLE BOY LOST, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Father! Where are you going? Last Line: And away the vapour flew. Subject(s): Bible; Loss; Mythology THE LITTLE GIRL FOUND, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the night in woe Last Line: Nor the lion's growl. Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Girls; Lions; Mythology THE LITTLE GIRL LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In futurity / I prophetic see Last Line: To caves the sleeping maid. Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Girls; Loss; Mythology THE LITTLE VAGABOND, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mother, dear mother, the church is cold Last Line: But kiss him, and give him both drink and apparel. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bible; Mythology; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse THE LOOK OF LOVE ALARMS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography THE LOOK OF LOVE ALARMS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air Last Line: For every thing that lives is holy Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Judgment Day; Mythology; Vision; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE MENTAL TRAVELLER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I travel'd thro' a land of men Last Line: And all is done as I have told. Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Mythology; Religion; Vision; Fancy; Theology THE ONLY MAN THAT EER I KNEW, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet's Biography THE PHOENIX TO MRS. BUTTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a bird rise from the east Last Line: Then it flies on glancing wing Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Phoenix (mythical Bird) THE QUESTION ANSWER'D, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it men in women do require? Last Line: The lineaments of gratified desire. Variant Title(s): A Question Answered Subject(s): Bible; Desire; Love - Marital; Mythology; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SCHOOL BOY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love to rise in a summer morn Last Line: When the blasts of winter appear? Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Schools; Students THE SHEPHERD, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet is the shepherd's sweet lot Last Line: For they know when their shepherd is nigh. Subject(s): Bible; Innocence; Mythology; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SICK ROSE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O rose, thou art sick! Last Line: Does thy life destroy. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Despair; Flowers; Mythology; Roses; Worms; Dead, The THE SMILE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a smile of love Last Line: There's an end to all misery. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Smiles THE SPIRIT'S WARFARE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To find the western path Last Line: Ascends the sky Variant Title(s): Morning Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THE SUNFLOWER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Ah sun-flower! Weary of time Last Line: Where my sun-flower wishes to go. Variant Title(s): Ah Sunflower Subject(s): Bible; Holidays; Mythology; New Year; Sunflowers THE SWORD AND THE SICKLE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sword sung on the barren heath Last Line: But could not make the sickle yield Variant Title(s): "the Sword Sung On The Barren Heath""; Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Peace THE TIGER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright / in the forests of the night Last Line: Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? Variant Title(s): The Beauty Of Terror;the Tyger Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Creation; God; Mythology; Terror; Tigers THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Youth of delight! Come hither Last Line: And wish to lead others, when they should be led. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THE WASHER WOMAN'S SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I washed them out & washed them in' Last Line: And they told me it was a great sin Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THE WILD FLOWER'S SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I wanderd the forest Last Line: But I met with scorn Variant Title(s): "as I Wandered""; Subject(s): Bible; Disappointment; Flowers; Mythology THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION (A), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man has no notion of moral fitness but from education Last Line: Organs of sense, must be limited to objects of sense. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION (B), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mans perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception Last Line: Is Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Religion; Science; Theology; Scientists THESE ARE THE IDIOTS' CHIEFEST ARTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography THEY SAY THIS MYSTERY SHALL NEVER CEASE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; War THIS HOUSE: BOOK 2. SPEAK IN PARABLES, by JIM BODEEN Poem Source First Line: What do you think I'm doing, william blake Last Line: I tap a tambourine at my side THY MAKER IS NEAR, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Think not thou canst sigh a sigh Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TIGER ASKS BLAKE FOR A BEDTIME STORY, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: William, william, writing late Last Line: May I dream of william blake TIRIEL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And aged tiriel stood before the gates of his beautiful palace Last Line: He ceast outstretchd at har & hevas feet in awful death Subject(s): Bible; Insanity; Mythology; Tyranny & Tyrants; Madness; Mental Illness; Dictators TIRZAH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O thou poor human form!' said she. 'o thou poor child of woe!' Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO AUTUMN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O autumn laden with fruit, and stained Last Line: Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load. Subject(s): Autumn; Bible; Mythology; Seasons; Fall TO CHLOE'S BREAST YOUNG CUPID SLILY STOLE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography TO ENGLISH CONNOISSEURS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You must agree that rubens was a fool Last Line: And not a brewers servant my good sir Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bible; Critics & Criticism; Mythology; Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) TO F ---, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You call me mad tis folly to do so Last Line: If you do not you are but what you was Subject(s): Bible; Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Insanity; Mythology; Madness; Mental Illness TO FLAXMAN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I mock thee not, tho' I by thee am mocked Last Line: Thou call'st me madman, but I call thee blockhead. Subject(s): Bible; Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Mythology TO GOD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you have formed a circle to go into Last Line: Go into it yourself & see how you would do Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO H----, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ake Last Line: Do be my enemy for friendships sake Subject(s): Bible; Friendship; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology TO HUNT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You think fuseli is not a great painter. I'm glad Last Line: This is one of the best compliments he ever had Subject(s): Bible; Fuseli, Henry (1741-1825); Mythology TO MEMORY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Memory, hither come Last Line: With silent melancholy. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Bible; Melancholy; Memory; Mythology; Rivers; Dejection TO MORNING, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O holy virgin! Clad in purest white Last Line: Thy buskin'd feet, appear upon our hills. Subject(s): Bible; Morning; Mythology TO MRS. ANN FLAXMAN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little flower grew in a lonely vale Last Line: Tis your own fault if you dont flourish now Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Mythology TO MRS. BUTTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wife of the friend of those I most revere Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO MY DEAR FRIEND, MRS. ANNA FLAXMAN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This song to the flower of flaxman's joy Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO MY DEAREST FRIEND, JOHN FLAXMAN, THESE LINES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I bless thee, o father of heaven and earth! That ever I saw flaxman's face Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO MY MYRTLE [MIRTLE], by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To a lovely myrtle bound Last Line: O my lovely myrtle tree Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Trees TO NANCY F ---, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can I help thy husband's copying me Last Line: Should that make difference twixt me & thee Subject(s): Bible; Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Mythology TO NOBODADDY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why art thou silent and invisible Last Line: Gains females loud applause Subject(s): Bible; Jealousy; Mythology TO S-----D (1), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To s----- in childhood on the nursery floor Last Line: He is extreme old & extreme poor still Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834) TO S-----D (2), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You all your youth observed the golden rule Last Line: Mine is the flesh the bones may be your share Subject(s): Bible; Human Behavior; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834); Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TO SPRING, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down Last Line: Whose modest tresses are bound up for thee. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Spring TO SUMMER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who passest through our valleys in Last Line: Nor laurel wreaths against the sultry heat. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Summer TO THE CHRISTIANS, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO THE DEISTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He can never be a friend to the human race who is the preacher Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO THE EVENING STAR, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thou fair-haired angel of the evening Last Line: Thy sacred dew: protect them with thine influence. Subject(s): Bible; Evening; Evening Star; Imagination; Mythology; Stars; Vision; Sunset; Twilight; Fancy TO THE MUSES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether on ida's shady brow / or in the chambers of the east Last Line: The sound is forced, the notes are few! Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Muses; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Fancy TO THE PUBLIC, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After my three years' slumber on the banks of the ocean Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A strange erratum in all the editions Last Line: In all that he has writ Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792); Royal Academy Of Arts, Great Britain TO THOMAS BUTTS (1), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O! Why was I born with a different face? Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO THOMAS BUTTS (2), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To my friend butts I write Last Line: Such the vision to me %appear'd on the sea Variant Title(s): To My Friend Butts I Write; To My Friend Butt Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO THOMAS BUTTS (3), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With happiness stretch'd across the hills Last Line: And twofold always. May god us keep %from single vision & newton's sleep Variant Title(s): With Happiness Stretch'd Across The Hill Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TO TIRZAH, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er is born of mortal birth Last Line: Then what have I to do with thee? Subject(s): Bible; Love; Mythology TO VENETIAN ARTISTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That god is colouring newton does shew Last Line: Those who taste colouring love it more & more Subject(s): Bible; Colors; Mythology; Paintings & Painters TO WILLIAM BLAKE, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be a god, your spirit cried Last Line: Where your piping goes before. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827) TO WILLIAM BLAKE, by BILL TREMBLAY Poem Source First Line: A man is marking a grid in chalk TO WINTER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O winter! Bar thine adamantine doors Last Line: Is driv'n yelling to his caves beneath mount hecla. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Winter TREMBLING I SIT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Ever expanding in the bosom of god, the human imagination! TWO DICTA OF WILLIAM BLAKE, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The authors are in eternity TWO DICTA OF WILLIAM BLAKE: VARIATIONS, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The authors are in eternity Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827) TWO EPIGRAMS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology TWO KINDS OF RICHES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since all the riches of this world Last Line: If I thanked my god for worldly things Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Property; Possessions TWO LIONS, by MUSHAKOJI SANEATSU Poem Source First Line: It's certainly true Last Line: The man called william blake UNIVERSAL FAMILY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our wars are wars of life, and wounds of love Subject(s): Bible; Mythology VALA, OR THE FOUR ZOAS, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology VARIATION ON A THEME OF WILLIAM BLAKE:, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some girls long to influence men's hearts VILLAGE CRICKET, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh I say, you joe Last Line: And runs without shoes to save his pumps! VISION OF ALBION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I see the fourfold man; the humanity in deadly sleep Subject(s): Bible; Mythology VISION OF JERUSALEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I see thy form. O lovely, mild jerusalem! Wing'd with six wings Subject(s): Bible; Mythology VISION OF JOSEPH AND MARY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Behold! In the visions of elohim jehovah, behold joseph and mary! Subject(s): Bible; Mythology VISION OF THE THREE DAUGHTERS, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loved theotormon Last Line: The daughters of albion hear her woes, & eccho back her sighs. Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Love; Mythology; Vision; Fancy VISITING FLORIDA AGAIN, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At eleventh and euclid I stood in front of an air Last Line: Sitting in the old reference room, %reading thomas paine & william blake & peter kropotkin, %creatin VOICE OF THE DEVIL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following errors Subject(s): Bible; Mythology WANT MATCHES?, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology WARRIOR AND THE DAUGHTER OF ALBION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look! The beautiful daughter of albion sits naked upon the stone Subject(s): Bible; Mythology WAS I ANGRY WITH HAYLEY WHO USED ME SO IN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography WHEN FRANCE GOT FREE, EUROPE, 'TWIXT FOOLS AND KNAVES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bible; Mythology WHEN I SEE A RUBENS REMBRANDT CORREGGIO, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography WHEN KLOPSTOCK ENGLAND DEFIED, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography WHEN YOU LOOK AT A PICTURE YOU ALWAYS CAN SEE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography WHICH ARE BAUTIES SWEETEST DRESS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: These are beauties sweetest dress Subject(s): Bible; Mythology WHO WILL EXCHANGE HIS OWN FIRE SIDE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography WHY SHOULD I CARE FOR THE MEN OF THAMES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography WHY SHOULD I CARE FOR THE MEN OF THAMES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography WILLIAM BLAKE, by WILLIAM E. PASSERA Poem Source First Line: Happily waving %my hand up Last Line: Haven't we done this already?' WILLIAM BLAKE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place. Even here the dauntless soul Last Line: The words now home-speech of the mouth of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827) WILLIAM BLAKE, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now william pulled the lever down Last Line: With a lot of psychoanalytic lust. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827) WILLIAM BLAKE, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: He came to the desert of london town Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Blindness WILLIAM BLAKE PREPARES HIMSELF A COCKTAIL, by BRUCE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Little lime, who cut thee Last Line: Good strong gin, god bless thee WILLIAM BLAKE SEES GOD, by ROY MCFADDEN Poem Source First Line: The cool sky opens like a hand Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827) WILLIAM BLAKE'S INN FOR INNOCENT AND EXPERIENCED TRAVELERS, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This inn belongs to william blake Last Line: Snowmen to honor william blake WILLIAM BOND, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder whether the girls are mad Last Line: In the naked & outcast seek love there Subject(s): Bible; Love; Mythology WILLIAM COWPER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For this is being a friend just in the nick Last Line: For any man to pretend to inspiration Subject(s): Bible; Cowper, William (1731-1800); Mythology; Poetry & Poets WISE COW MAKES WAY, ROOM, AND BELIEVE, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rabbit cried, make way! Last Line: The noble poet, william blake WITH ILLUSTRATION TO GRAY'S POEMS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around the springs of gray my wild root weaves Last Line: Traveller repose & dream among my leaves, Subject(s): Bible; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Mythology WORDS OF LOS, FR, JERUSALEM, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I must create a system, ot be enslav'd by another man's Subject(s): Bible; Mythology WORSHIP OF GOD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is easier to forgive and enemy than to forgive a friend Subject(s): Bible; Mythology WRATH OF GOD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The breath divine went forth over the morning hills. Albion rose Subject(s): Bible; Mythology YOU DON'T BELIEVE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You don't believe I won't attempt to make ye Last Line: Try ,try & never mind the reason why Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sleep YOU SAY THEIR PICTURES WELL PAINTED, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography |
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