The Portable Blake

by William Blake

  They know not why they love nor wherefore they sicken & die

  This Song to the flower of Flaxman’s joy

  Thou fair-hair’d angel of the evening

  Thou hast a lap full of seed

  Thou hearest the Nightingale begin the Song of Spring

  Three Virgins at the break of day

  Thy Friendship oft has made my heart to ake

  To a lovely mirtle bound

  To Autumn

  To English Connoisseurs

  To find the Western path

  To F[laxman]

  To God

  To H[ayley]

  To John Flaxman

  To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love

  To Morning

  To Mrs. Anna Flaxman

  To my Friend Butts I write

  To My Mirtle

  To Nobodaddy

  To see a World in a Grain of Sand

  To Spring

  To Summer

  To the Evening Star

  To the Muses

  To Tirzah

  To Venetian Artists

  To Winter

  Trembling & strucken by the Universal stroke, the trees unroot

  Trembling I sit day and night, my friends are astonish’ d at me

  Truly, My Satan, thou art but a Dunce

  ’Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean

  Tyger! Tyger! burning bright

  Urizen rose from the bright Feast like a star thro’ the evening sky

  Urizen said: “I have Erred, & my Error remains with me

  Venetian, all thy Colouring is no more

  We are not Individuals but States, Combinations of Individuals

  What is a Wife & what is a Harlot? What is a Church & What

  What is it men in women do require?

  Whate’er is Born of Mortal Birth

  Whate’er is done to her she cannot know

  When a Man has married a Wife, he finds out whether

  When early morn walks forth in sober grey

  When I see a Rubens, Rembrandt, Correggio

  When my mother died I was very young

  When Nations grow Old, The Arts grow Cold

  When Sir Joshua Reynolds died

  When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy

  When the voices of children are heard on the green (Songs of Innocence)

  When the voices of children are heard on the green (Songs of Experience)

  Whether on Ida’s shady brow

  Which are beauties sweetest dress?

  Why art thou silent & invisible

  Why of the sheep do you not learn peace

  Why should I be bound to thee

  Why should I care for the men of Thames

  Why was Cupid a Boy

  Wife of the Friend of those I most revere

  William Bond

  William Cowper, Esqre

  With happiness stretch’d across the hills

  With trembling horror pale, aghast the Children of Man

  You don’t believe—I won’t attempt to make ye

  You must agree that Rubens was a Fool

  You say reserve & modesty he has

  You say their Pictures well Painted be

  Youth of delight, come hither

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  1 Written by Catherine Blake.