• William Blake

    The Divine Image

    To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray in their distress; And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love       Is God, our Father dear, And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love Is man, His child and care. For Mercy has a…

  • William Blake

    Night

    William Blake (1757–1827). THE SUN descending in the west, The evening star does shine; The birds are silent in their nest, And I must seek for mine. The moon, like a flower,       In heaven’s high bower, With silent delight Sits and smiles on the night. Farewell, green…

  • William Blake

    The Sick Rose

    William Blake (1757–1827). O ROSE, thou art sick! The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed       Of crimson joy; And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

  • William Blake

    Ah! Sun-Flower

    William Blake (1757–1827). AH, Sun-flower! weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun; Seeking after that sweet golden clime, Where the traveller’s journey is done; Where the Youth pined away with desire,       And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow, Arise from their graves, and aspire…

  • William Blake

    The Garden of Love

    I went to the Garden of Love, And I saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And „Thou shalt not.“ Writ over the door; So I turn’d to…

  • William Blake

    A Dream

    Once a dream did weave a shade O’er my Angel-guarded bed, That an emmet lost its way Where on grass methought I lay. Troubled, ’wilder’d, and forlorn,       Dark, benighted, travel-worn, Over many a tangled spray, All heart-broke I heard her say: ‘O, my children! do they cry?…

  • William Blake

    Night

    The sun descending in the west, The evening star does shine; The birds are silent in their nest, And I must seek for mine. The moon, like a flower, In heaven’s high bower, With silent delight Sits and smiles on the night. Farewell, green fields and happy groves, Where flocks…