Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
The Fairy
‘COME hither, my Sparrows,My little arrows.If a tear or a smileWill a man beguile,If an amorous delayClouds a sunshiny day,If the step of a..
© William Blake
A QUESTION ANSWERED
What is it men in women do require?The lineaments of Gratified Desire.What is it women do in men require?The lineaments of Gratified Desire.
© William Blake
The Book Of Urizen: Chapter Vi
1. But Los saw the Female & pitiedHe embrac'd her, she wept, she refus'dIn perverse and cruel delightShe fled from his arms, yet he followd2...
© William Blake
The Invocation
Daughters of Beulah! Muses who inspire the Poet's Song,Record the journey of immortal Milton thro' your realmsOf terror and mild moony lustre, in..
© William Blake
The Chimney-Sweeper: When My Mother Died I Was Very Young
When my mother died I was very young,And my father sold me while yet my tongueCould scarcely cry 'Weep! weep! weep! weep!'So your chimneys I sweep..
© William Blake
The Book Of Urizen: Chapter Viii
1. Urizen explor'd his densMountain, moor, & wilderness,With a globe of fire lighting his journeyA fearful journey, annoy'dBy cruel enormities:..
© William Blake
The Book Of Urizen: Chapter Iv
a1. Los smitten with astonishmentFrightend at the hurtling bones2. And at the surging sulphureousPerturbed Immortal mad raging3. In whirlwinds &..
© William Blake
The Book Of Urizen: Chapter Iii
1. The voice ended, they saw his pale visageEmerge from the darkness; his handOn the rock of eternity unclaspingThe Book of brass. Rage siez'd the..
© William Blake
The Book Of Urizen: Chapter V
1. In terrors Los shrunk from his task:His great hammer fell from his hand:His fires beheld, and sickening,Hid their strong limbs in smoke.For with..
© William Blake
The Book Of Urizen (Excerpts)
Lo, a shadow of horror is risenIn Eternity! Unknown, unprolific,Self-clos'd, all-repelling: what demonHath form'd this abominable void,This..
© William Blake
The Book Of Urizen: Preludium
Of the primeval Priests assum'd power,When Eternals spurn'd back his religion;And gave him a place in the north,Obscure, shadowy, void..
© William Blake
The Book Of Urizen: Chapter Vii
1. They named the child Orc, he grewFed with milk of Enitharmon2. Los awoke her; O sorrow & pain!A tight'ning girdle grew,Around his bosom. In..
© William Blake
The Book Of Urizen: Chapter Ix
1. Then the Inhabitants of those Cities:Felt their Nerves change into MarrowAnd hardening Bones beganIn swift diseases and torments,In throbbings..
© William Blake
The Sky Is An Immortal Tent Built By The Sons Of Los
The sky is an immortal tent built by the Sons of Los:And every space that a man views around his dwelling-placeStanding on his own roof or in his..
© William Blake
The Book Of Urizen: Chapter I
1. Lo, a shadow of horror is risenIn Eternity! Unknown, unprolific!Self-closd, all-repelling: what DemonHath form'd this abominable voidThis..
© William Blake
The Book Of Urizen: Chapter Ii
1. Earth was not: nor globes of attractionThe will of the Immortal expandedOr contracted his all flexible senses.Death was not, but eternal life..
© William Blake
To Thomas Butts
TO my friend Butts I writeMy first vision of light,On the yellow sands sitting.The sun was emittingHis glorious beamsFrom Heaven’s high streams.Over..
© William Blake
When Klopstock England Defied
When Klopstock England defied,Uprose William Blake in his pride;For old Nobodaddy aloft. . . and belch'd and cough'd;Then swore a great oath that..
© William Blake
The Book Of Thel
1 Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?2 Or wilt thou go ask the Mole?3 Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?4 Or Love in a golden bowl?I1.1 The..
© William Blake
The Four Zoas (Excerpt)
'What is the price of Experience? do men buy it for a song?Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the priceOf all that a man..
© William Blake
If It Is True What The Prophets Write
If it is true, what the Prophets write,That the heathen gods are all stocks and stones,Shall we, for the sake of being polite,Feed them with the..
© William Blake
Preludium To Europe
The nameless shadowy female rose from out the breast of Orc,Her snaky hair brandishing in the winds of Enitharmon;And thus her voice arose:'O mother..
© William Blake
The Question Answered
What is it men in women do require?The lineaments of gratified Desire.What is it women do in men require?The lineaments of gratified Desire
© William Blake
The Everlasting Gospel
The vision of Christ that thou dost seeIs my vision’s greatest enemy.Thine has a great hook nose like thine;Mine has a snub nose like to mine.Thine..
© William Blake
Jerusalem: England! Awake! Awake! Awake!
England! awake! awake! awake!Jerusalem thy Sister calls!Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of deathAnd close her from thy ancient walls?Thy hills and..
© William Blake