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Subject: BLAKE, WILLIAM (1757-1827)
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First Line: The heavy, wet, guttural
Last Line: Now and later.
Subject(s): Air; Aviation & Aviators; Blake, William (1757-1827); Cancer (disease); Airplanes; Air Pilots


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


ARTIFACT: FIRST OF ALL, SEA; AND HALF OF THE SEA IS TRUTH, HALF WIND, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: 1. It is wise to hearken not to me, but to my word, and to confess that all
Last Line: ........... The surge of blue
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827)


BLAKE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saw them glittering in the trees
Last Line: Dreaming one poem
Subject(s): Hope; Solitude; Blake, William (1757-1827); Optimism; Loneliness


BLAKE, by HAROLD LEWIS COOK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blake was the child who saw
Last Line: For visions like these.
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827)


BLAKE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blake saw
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827)


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, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder if you feel as you look at us
Last Line: Reflections of the sun—shining pale-ly.
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827)


COSMOGRAPHY, by ARTHUR HOBART NETHERCOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: John milton saw the universe aswing
Last Line: Saw god look at him through the window pane.
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Milton, John (1608-1674)


CRADLE SONG (TO A TUNE OF BLAKE'S): 1, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baby, baby bright
Last Line: Heaven in two blue eyes.
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827)


CRADLE SONG (TO A TUNE OF BLAKE'S): 2, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baby, baby dear
Last Line: Earth and heaven are one.
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827)


CRADLE SONG (TO A TUNE OF BLAKE'S): 3, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baby, baby sweet
Last Line: Sleep will come apace.
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827)


CRADLE SONG (TO A TUNE OF BLAKE'S): 4, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baby, baby true
Last Line: Babies know the truth
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827)


CRADLE SONG (TO A TUNE OF BLAKE'S): 5, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baby, baby fair
Last Line: Never yet was heard
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827)


CRADLE SONG (TO A TUNE OF BLAKE'S): 6, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baby, baby kind
Last Line: Let it worship you.
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827)


CRADLE SONG (TO A TUNE OF BLAKE'S): 7, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baby, baby wise
Last Line: So your heart feels love.
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827)


EACH DEFEAT, by EILEEN MYLES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Please! Keep / reading me
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Friendship; Relationships; Death - Animals; Failure


IN BEAUTY BRIGHT, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Lilies; Blake, William (1757-1827)


IN THE OCTAGONAL ROOM, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To see / blake's earth
Last Line: Rests
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Blood; Cruelty; Pain; Tate Museum, London; Suffering; Misery


LINES SUGGESTED BY AN EDITION OF BLAKE'S POEMS, by WALTER ALEXANDER RALEIGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you try to do what's right %you pass your life in a horrible fright
Last Line: And your emanation - lord protect her! - %commits adultery with your spectre
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827)


MAD BLAKE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blake saw a treeful of angels at peckham rye
Last Line: Of songs that was sung to the soul of the madman, blake!
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827)


MY FATHER'S FACE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old he was but not yet wax
Last Line: This man not
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Fathers


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


NOVEMBER 23, 1989; AFTER BLAKE, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two rising flukes of green water
Last Line: Must bear away the most meat.
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Nature - Religious Aspects; Order; Sea; Ocean


SKIN OF IT, by PHYLLIS WITTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was black %I was white
Last Line: How do we dare?
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


SLUG, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How I loved one like you when I was little!
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Slugs


SLUG, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How I loved one like you when I was little!
Last Line: But as for you, most odious - %would blake call you holy?
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Slugs


THE ALL RIGHT UN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He came from further out
Last Line: Was 'a all right un'.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Life; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TIGRESS, by FLOYD DELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tigress, tigress, burning bright
Last Line: Why, you're just a kitten, after all!
Subject(s): Animals; Blake, William (1757-1827); Tigers


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)


TWO DICTA OF WILLIAM BLAKE: VARIATIONS, by ROBERT DUNCAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The authors are in eternity
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827)


TYGER'S REPLY TO BLAKE, by MARY HOLTBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meagre, meagre, little man
Last Line: Dares speculate how I began!
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


WALKING A LOBSTER WITH BLAKE ALONG SPEEDWAY, by LAUREL SPEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Goldbarth says, two hundred years earlier, blake wrote
Last Line: I heard it was a langouste, but what matter %the man was unbalanced
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


WILLIAM BLAKE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 SEES GOD, by ROY MCFADDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cool sky opens like a hand
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827)


WISER THAN THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT, by MONK GIBBON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shelley, madman, made his rhymes
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827)