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" So sung a little Clod of Clay Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a Pebble of the brook Warbled out these metres meet: " Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to Its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite. "
The Poetical Works of William Blake - Page 79
by William Blake - 1906
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The Churchman's companion

1882 - 492 pages
...PEBBLE. " ' Love seeketh not itself to please, " So sung a little clod of clay, Trodden with the cattle's feet ; But a pebble of the brook Warbled out these...loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite.' " His love of animals seems to have been very great, and it is in the poems on his favourite animals...
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Songs of Innocence and Experience: with Other Poems

William Blake - 1866 - 132 pages
...ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair. So sung a little clod of clay, Trodden with the cattle's feet : But a pebble of the brook Warbled out these...loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite. THE GARDEN OP LOVE. I WENT to the garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen ; A Chapel was built...
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Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, Volume 2, Book 4

George Eliot - 1871 - 392 pages
...Nor for itself hath any care. But for another gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair. Love seeketh only self to please. To bind another...Joys in another's loss of ea.se, And builds a hell ia heaven's despite." — W. BLAKE : Songs of Experience. FRED VINCY wanted to arrive at Stone Court...
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Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, Volume 2, Book 4

George Eliot - 1872 - 400 pages
...Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair. Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another...loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite." —W. BLAKE : Sowjs of Experience. FRED VINOT wanted to arrive at Stone Court when Mary could not expect...
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Herald of Health, Volume 19

1872 - 332 pages
...ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair. So sang a little clod of clay, Trodden with the cattle's feet; But a pebble of the brook Warbled out these metres meet : Love seeketh only sel to please. To bind another to Its delight, Joys in anothers loss of ease. And builds a hell in...
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Middlemarch: a study of provincial life, by George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 pages
...care, But for another gives its ease. And builds a heaven in hell's despair. * t • * * " Love eeeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight,...loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite." —W. BLAKE : Songs of Experience, FKED VINCY wanted to arrive at Stone Court when Mary could not expect...
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The poems of William Blake [ed. by R.H. Shepherd].

William Blake - 1874 - 194 pages
...ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair. So sung a little clod of clay, Trodden with the cattle's feet ; But a pebble of the brook Warbled out these...loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite. THE GARDEN OF LOVE. I WENT to the garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen : A Chapel was built...
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Choice poems and lyrics, for study and delight, ed. by J.T. Ashby

Choice poems - 1879 - 206 pages
...ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair.' So sung a little clod of clay, Trodden with 'the cattle's feet : But a pebble of the brook Warbled out these...loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite.' William Blake. This poem presents two views of love. Love unselfish and sincere, deriving happiness...
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A Doubting Heart, Volume 2

Annie Keary - 1879 - 384 pages
...builds a heaven in hell's despair." So sang a little clod of clay, Trodden with the catties' feet, Bnt a pebble of the brook Warbled out these metres meet...loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite." THE note that had cost so much discussion, and been sent on its way with so many misgivings, reached...
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The Andover review, eds. E.C. Smyth [and others]., Volume 1

Egbert Coffin Smyth - 1884 - 720 pages
...pictures remind us of Da Vinci's Profane and Sacred Love, and of Blake's stanzas : — " Love secketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight,...loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite." " Love secketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease,...
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