Life of William Blake: With Selections from His Poems and Other Writings, Volume 2Macmillan and Company, 1880 |
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... Naked , and roaring like lions , hurling rocks , And wielding knotty clubs , like oaks entangled , Thick as a forest ready for the axe . Our fathers move in firm array to battle ; The savage monsters rush like roaring fire , Like as a ...
... Naked , and roaring like lions , hurling rocks , And wielding knotty clubs , like oaks entangled , Thick as a forest ready for the axe . Our fathers move in firm array to battle ; The savage monsters rush like roaring fire , Like as a ...
Page 35
... naked and white , all their bags left behind , They rise upon clouds , and sport in the wind ; And the angel told Tom , if he'd be a good boy , He'd have God for his father , and never want joy . And so Tom awoke , and we rose in the ...
... naked and white , all their bags left behind , They rise upon clouds , and sport in the wind ; And the angel told Tom , if he'd be a good boy , He'd have God for his father , and never want joy . And so Tom awoke , and we rose in the ...
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... eyes of flame , Ruby tears there came ; While the lioness Loos'd her slender dress , And naked they conveyed To caves the sleeping maid . THE LITTLE GIRL FOUND . ALL the night in woe 56 SELECTIONS FROM BLAKE'S WRITINGS .
... eyes of flame , Ruby tears there came ; While the lioness Loos'd her slender dress , And naked they conveyed To caves the sleeping maid . THE LITTLE GIRL FOUND . ALL the night in woe 56 SELECTIONS FROM BLAKE'S WRITINGS .
Page 69
... naked , piping loud , Like a fiend hid in a cloud . Struggling in my father's hands , Striving against my swaddling bands , Bound , and weary , I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast . CHRISTIAN FORBEARANCE . I WAS angry with my ...
... naked , piping loud , Like a fiend hid in a cloud . Struggling in my father's hands , Striving against my swaddling bands , Bound , and weary , I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast . CHRISTIAN FORBEARANCE . I WAS angry with my ...
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... Naked in the sunny beams delight . Once a youthful pair , Fill'd with softest care , Met in garden bright , Where the holy light Had just removed the curtains of the night . Then , in rising day , On the grass they play ; Parents were ...
... Naked in the sunny beams delight . Once a youthful pair , Fill'd with softest care , Met in garden bright , Where the holy light Had just removed the curtains of the night . Then , in rising day , On the grass they play ; Parents were ...
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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