Life of William Blake: With Selections from His Poems and Other Writings, Volume 2Macmillan and Company, 1880 |
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... true lovers have . His face is fair as heaven When springing buds unfold ; Oh , why to him was't given , Whose heart is wintry cold ? His breast is Love's all - worshipped tomb Where all Love's pilgrims come . Bring me an axe and spade ...
... true lovers have . His face is fair as heaven When springing buds unfold ; Oh , why to him was't given , Whose heart is wintry cold ? His breast is Love's all - worshipped tomb Where all Love's pilgrims come . Bring me an axe and spade ...
Page 27
... true pathetic chord of its subject , and the second , tinged somewhat with the commonplaces , if also with the truths , of social discontent . However , very perfect and noble examples of Blake's metaphysical poetry occur among the ...
... true pathetic chord of its subject , and the second , tinged somewhat with the commonplaces , if also with the truths , of social discontent . However , very perfect and noble examples of Blake's metaphysical poetry occur among the ...
Page 86
... true one in his simple sentence : " This poem seems to me to represent , under a very ideal form , the phenomena of gestation and birth " ( see the Aldine edition of Blake's Poems , page 174 ) . The singular stanza commencing " Another ...
... true one in his simple sentence : " This poem seems to me to represent , under a very ideal form , the phenomena of gestation and birth " ( see the Aldine edition of Blake's Poems , page 174 ) . The singular stanza commencing " Another ...
Page 88
... true patents of nobility in painting and poetry , taking precedence of all intellectual claims ; and it is by virtue of these , first of all , that Blake holds , in both arts , a rank which cannot be taken from him . Of the Epigrams on ...
... true patents of nobility in painting and poetry , taking precedence of all intellectual claims ; and it is by virtue of these , first of all , that Blake holds , in both arts , a rank which cannot be taken from him . Of the Epigrams on ...
Page 127
... true ; And my sun it shined and shined , And my wind it never blew . But a blossom fair or true Was not found on any tree ; For all blossoms grew and grew Fruitless , false , though fair to see . NIGHT AND DAY . SILENT , silent Night ...
... true ; And my sun it shined and shined , And my wind it never blew . But a blossom fair or true Was not found on any tree ; For all blossoms grew and grew Fruitless , false , though fair to see . NIGHT AND DAY . SILENT , silent Night ...
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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