Life of William Blake: With Selections from His Poems and Other Writings, Volume 2Macmillan and Company, 1880 |
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Page vii
... born of mortal birth THE BOOK OF THEL IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL . 76 77 172 INTRODUCTORY NOTE THE BIRDS . Where thou dwellest , in what grove . BROKEN LOVE . My spectre around me night and day • • THE TWO SONGS . I heard an angel singing ...
... born of mortal birth THE BOOK OF THEL IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL . 76 77 172 INTRODUCTORY NOTE THE BIRDS . Where thou dwellest , in what grove . BROKEN LOVE . My spectre around me night and day • • THE TWO SONGS . I heard an angel singing ...
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... born . Doubt is fled , and clouds of reason , Dark disputes and artful teasing . Folly is an endless maze ; Tangled roots perplex her ways ; How many have fallen there ! They stumble all night over bones of the dead ; And feel they know ...
... born . Doubt is fled , and clouds of reason , Dark disputes and artful teasing . Folly is an endless maze ; Tangled roots perplex her ways ; How many have fallen there ! They stumble all night over bones of the dead ; And feel they know ...
Page 67
... hear How the youthful harlot's curse Blasts the new - born infant's tear , And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse . THE HUMAN ABSTRACT . PITY would be no more If F 2 SONGS OF EXPERIENCE . 67 wander through each charter'd street.
... hear How the youthful harlot's curse Blasts the new - born infant's tear , And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse . THE HUMAN ABSTRACT . PITY would be no more If F 2 SONGS OF EXPERIENCE . 67 wander through each charter'd street.
Page 74
... born for joy Sit in a cage and sing ? How can a child , when fears annoy , But droop his tender wing , And forget his youthful spring ? O father and mother , if buds are nipp'd , And blossoms blown away ; And if the tender plants are ...
... born for joy Sit in a cage and sing ? How can a child , when fears annoy , But droop his tender wing , And forget his youthful spring ? O father and mother , if buds are nipp'd , And blossoms blown away ; And if the tender plants are ...
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... summer arise in joy , Or the summer fruits appear ? Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy , Or bless the mellowing year , When the blasts of winter appear ? TO TIRZAH . WHATE ER is born of Mortal Birth SONGS OF EXPERIENCE . 75.
... summer arise in joy , Or the summer fruits appear ? Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy , Or bless the mellowing year , When the blasts of winter appear ? TO TIRZAH . WHATE ER is born of Mortal Birth SONGS OF EXPERIENCE . 75.
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Abel Act directs March Adam Adam and Eve ancient angels Artist babe beauty beneath Blake N3 Fountain bright Butts called character Chaucer child Christ cloud colour Colour-printed Correggio dark Death delight divine dost doth drawing earth echoing green engraved eternal execution eyes father fear female figure flame Fountain Court Strand Giulio Romano golden grave hand head heaven Henry Baillie holy human Human Abstract imagination Indian ink infant invention labour Lamb Last Judgment light Linnell Lyca Michael Angelo morning mortal mother N3 Fountain Court naked never night NUMBER o'er painter painting picture Pity poem Rembrandt represent round Rubens Satan seen serpent shine sleep smile song Songs of Experience sorrow soul Spirit stands sweet tears Tempera thee Thel things thou Titian tree Virgin vision water-colour weep Wife of Bath William Blake woman youth