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The Complete Poems

Page 91

by William Blake


  Introduction (SE) 117

  Introduction (SI) 104

  Jerusalem 635

  King Edward the Third 39

  Lacedemonian Instruction 154

  Laughing Song 109

  London (NPF) 143

  London (SE) 128

  Long John Brown & Little Mary Bell 510

  Mad Song 29

  Mary 503

  Merlins Prophecy 151

  Milton 513

  Morning 493

  Motto to the Songs of Innocence & of Experience 157

  Mr Cromek to Mr Stothard 614

  [Mr Cromek to] Mr Stothard to Mr Cromek 614

  My Pretty Rose Tree 126

  Night 112

  Nurses Song (SE) 123

  Nurse’s Song (SI) 114

  On Anothers Sorrow 116

  [To] On F[laxman] & S[tothard] 617

  On H[ayley] the Pick Thank 622

  On H[ayle]ys Friendship 617

  On S[tothard] 618

  On the Great Encouragement given by English Nobility & Gentry to Correggio Rubens Rembrandt Reynolds Gainsborough Catalani Ducrowe & Dilbury Doodle 621

  On the Venetian Painter 633

  On the Virginity of the Virgin Mary & Johanna Southcott 489

  Prologue, intended for a dramatic piece of King Edward the Fourth 59

  Prologue to King John 59

  Riches 154

  Several Questions Answerd 158

  Soft Snow 149

  Song (Fresh from the dewy hill) 30

  Song (How sweet I roam’d) 26

  Song (I love the jocund dance) 28

  Song (Love and harmony combine) 27

  Song (Memory, hither come) 29

  Song (My silks and fine array) 27

  Song (When early morn walks forth) 30

  Song 1st by a Shepherd 61

  Song 2nd by a Young Shepherd 61

  Song 3rd by an Old Shepherd 62

  Songs from ‘An Island in the Moon’ 63

  Spring 113

  [Thames] 139

  [The Angel] (NPF) 155

  The Angel (SE) 124

  The Birds 490

  The Blossom 107

  The Book of Ahania 259

  The Book of Los 267

  The Book of Thel 78

  The [First] Book of Urizen 242

  The [visions] Caverns of the Grave Ive seen (NESV) 630

  The Chimney Sweeper (NPF) 151

  The Chimney Sweeper (SE) 123

  The Chimney Sweeper (SI) 108

  The Clod & the Pebble 118

  The Crystal Cabinet 504

  The Divine Image 111

  The Ecchoing Green 105

  The Everlasting Gospel 848

  [The Marriage Ring] The Fairy 152

  The Fly 124

  The French Revolution 162

  The Garden of Love 127

  The Ghost of Abel 864

  The Golden Net 498

  The Grey Monk 505

  The Human Abstract 128

  The Kid 153

  The Lamb 106

  The Land of Dreams 502

  The Lilly 126

  The Little Black Boy 106

  The Little Boy Found 109

  The Little Boy lost 109

  The Little Girl Found 121

  The Little Girl Lost 119

  The Little [A Pretty] Vagabond (NPF) 153

  The Little Vagabond (SE) 127

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 180

  The Mental Traveller 499

  The Question Answerd 154

  The School Boy 132

  The Shepherd 105

  The Sick Rose (NPF) 149

  The Sick Rose (SE) 123

  The Smile 498

  The Song of Los 237

  The Tyger (NPF: First Version) 145

  The Tyger (NPF: Second Version) 146

  The Tyger (SE) 125

  The Voice of the Ancient Bard 133

  The Washer Womans Song 623

  The Wild Flowers Song 148

  Thel’s Motto 78

  There is No Natural Religion 75

  Tiriel 85

  To Autumn 22

  To English Connoisseurs 619

  To F[laxman] (I mock thee not) 612

  To F[laxman] (You call me Mad) 617

  To God 628

  To H[ayley] 618

  To H[unt] 612

  To John Flaxman, 12 September 1800 481

  To Morning 24

  To Mrs Ann Flaxman 479

  To Mrs Butts 484

  To Mrs Flaxman, 14 September 1800 482

  To My Mirtle 150

  To Nancy F[laxman] 612

  To Nobodaddy 144

  To Spring 21

  To S[tothar]d 614

  To Summer 21

  To the Christians 797

  To the Deists 737

  To the Evening Star 23

  To the Jews 685

  To the Muses 31

  To the Queen 608

  To the Royal Academy 616

  To Thomas Butts, 2 October 1800 482

  To Thomas Butts, 22 November 1802 485

  To Thomas Butts, 16 August 1803 487

  To Tirzah 132

  To Venetian Artists 626

  To Winter 23

  Vala, or the Four Zoas 273

  Verse from the Advertisement to Blake’s Exhibition of Paintings, 1809 633

  Visions of the Daughters of Albion 196

  William Bond 511

  [Epitaph for] William Cowper Esqre 624

  Index of First Lines

  A crowned king 74

  A fairy [leapt] skipd upon my knee 479

  A flower was offerd to me (NPF) 134

  A flower was offerd to me (SE: My Pretty Rose Tree) 126

  A little black thing among the snow (NPF: The Chimney Sweeper) 151

  A little black thing among the snow (SE: The Chimney Sweeper) 123

  A little Flower grew in a lonely Vale 479

  A Pair of Stays to mend the Shape 633

  A Petty sneaking Knave I knew 613

  A strange Erratum in all the Editions 616

  A Woman Scaly & a Man all Hairy 497

  Abstinence sows sand all over 153

  Adam stood in the garden of Eden 238

  Ah said Sipsop, I only wish Jack [Hunter] Tearguts had 63

  Ah Sun-flower! weary of time 126

  All Pictures thats Panted with Sense & with Thought 622

  All the night in woe 121

  An old maid early eer I knew 158

  And Aged Tiriel. stood before the Gates of his beautiful palace 85

  And did those feet in ancient time 514

  And his legs carried it like a long fork 609

  And in Melodious Accents I 634

  Anger & Wrath my bosom rends 611

  Are not the joys of morning sweeter 145

  Around the Springs of Gray my wild root weaves 479

  As I walkd forth one may morning 67

  As I wanderd the forest 148

  As the Ignorant Savage will sell his own Wife 621

  Awake awake my little Boy 502

  Beneath the white thorn lovely May 489

  Call that the Public Voice which is their Error 634

  Can I see anothers woe 116

  Can there be any thing more mean 612

  Children of the future Age 131

  Come hither my boy tell me what thou seest there 154

  Come hither my sparrows 152

  Come, Kings, and listen to my song 32

  Come knock your heads against this stone 619

  Cosway Frazer & Baldwin of Egypts Lake 618

  Cr[omek] loves artists as he loves his Meat 613

  Daughters of Beulah! Muses who inspire the Poets Song 514

  Dear Mother Dear Mother the church is cold (NPF: The Little [A Pretty] Vagabond) 153

  Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold (SE: The Little Vagabond) 127

  Degrade first the Arts if you’d Mankind degrade 632

  Did Jesus teach do
ubt or did he 854

  Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? 78

  [This world] Each Man is in [the] His Spectres power 494

  Earth raisd up her head (NPF: [The] Earths Answer) 142

  Earth rais’d up her head (SE: Earth’s Answer) 118

  Eno aged Mother 267

  Enslav’d, the Daughters of Albion weep: a trembling lamentation 196

  Father, father, where are you going 109

  Fayette beheld the King & Queen 160

  [Fayette beside King Lewis stood…] 160

  Five windows light the cavern’d Man; thro’ one he breathes the air 225

  For Fortunes favours you your riches bring 614

  Fortune favours the Brave old Proverbs say 614

  Fresh from the dewy hill, the merry year 30

  Fuzon, on a chariot iron-wing’d 259

  Give pensions to the Learned Pig 621

  Golden Apollo, that thro’ heaven wide 35

  Great Men & Fools do often me Inspire 628

  Great things are done when Men & Mountains meet 624

  Grown old in Love from Seven till Seven times Seven 497

  Hail Matrimony made of Love 68

  Having given great offence by writing in Prose 627

  He has observd the Golden Rule 613

  He is a Cock [wont] would 613

  He makes the Lame to walk we all agree 633

  He who binds to himself [to] a joy 153

  He who binds to himself a joy (Several Questions Answerd) 158

  Hear the voice of the Bard! 117

  Hear then the pride & knowledge of a Sailor 65

  Her whole Life is an Epigram smack smooth & neatly pend 157

  Here lies John Trot the Friend of all mankind 619

  Hes a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Cant Percieve 613

  [How came pride in Man…] 147

  How can I help thy Husbands copying Me 612

  How sweet I roam’d from field to field 26

  How sweet is the Shepherds sweet lot 105

  I always take my judgment from a Fool 622

  I am no Homers Hero you all know 614

  I am sure This Jesus will not do 860

  I askd my Dear Friend Orator Prigg 626

  I asked a thief [if he’d] to steal me a peach 136

  I bless thee, O Father of Heaven & Earth, that even I saw Flaxman’s face 481

  I die I die the Mother said 505

  I dreamt a dream what can it mean (NPF: [The Angel]) 155

  I Dreamt a Dream! what can it mean? (SE: The Angel) 124

  I feard the [roughness] fury of my wind 139

  I found them blind, I taught them how to see (MVE) 634

  I found [thee] them blind I taught [thee] how to see (NESV: [To] On F[Iaxman] & S[tothard] 617

  I [have givn] give you the end of a golden string 624

  I have no name 115

  I heard an Angel singing 136

  I laid me down upon a bank 135

  I love the jocund dance 28

  I love to rise in a summer morn 132

  I loved Theotormon 196

  I mock thee not tho I by thee am Mocked 612

  I rose up at the dawn of day 629

  I Rubens am a Statesman & a Saint 619

  I saw a chapel all of gold 136

  I saw a Monk of [Constantine] Charlemaine 491

  I say this evening [we’d] we’ll all get drunk. I say dash 66

  I told my love I told my love 134

  I traveld thro’ a Land of Men 499

  I walked abroad in a snowy day 149

  I wander thro’ each charter’d street 128

  I wander thro each dirty street 143

  I was angry with my friend (NPF: Christian Forbearance) 138

  I was angry with my friend (SE: A Poison Tree) 129

  I was buried near this Dike 619

  I washd them out & washd them in 623

  I went to the garden of love (NPF) 135

  I went to the Garden of Love (SE: The Garden of Love) 127

  I will sing you a song of Los. the Eternal Prophet 237

  I will tell you what Joseph of Arimathea 625

  I wonder whether the Girls are mad 511

  I write the Rascal Thanks till he & I 622

  If I eer Grow to Mans Estate 621

  If it is True What the Prophets write 616

  If Men will act like a maid smiling over a Churn 628

  If Moral Virtue was Christianity 839

  If you have formd a Circle to go into 628

  If you mean to Please Every body you will 622

  If you play a Game of Chance know before you begin 624

  If you [catch] trap the moment before its ripe 153

  In a wife I would desire 153

  In futurity 119

  In the last Battle that Arthur fought, the most Beautiful was one 633

  In the Moon as Phebus stood over his oriental Gardening 63

  Is this a holy thing to see (NPF: Holy Thursday) 155

  Is this a holy thing to see (SE: Holy Thursday) 119

  Justice hath heav’d a sword to plunge in Albion’s breast 59

  Leave O leave [me] to my sorrows 73

  Let the brothels of Paris be opened 159

  Little Fly 124

  Little fly 156

  Little Lamb who made thee 106

  [Pretty] Little Mary Bell had a Fairy in a Nut 510

  Lo the Bat with Leathern wing 66

  [Look Flaxman & Stothard do] old acquaintance well renew 611

  Love and harmony combine 27

  Love seeketh not itself to please (NPF) 135

  Love seeketh not Itself to please (SE: The Clod & the Pebble) 118

  Love to faults is always blind 148

  Madman I have been calld Fool they call thee 612

  Mans perceptions are not bounded 75

  Me Time has Crook’d. no good Workman 628

  Memory, hither come 29

  Merry Merry Sparrow 107

  Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau 494

  Mutual forgiveness of each Vice 861

  My mother bore me in the southern wild 106

  My mother groand my father wept (NPF: Infant Sorrow) 139

  My mother groand! my father wept (SE: Infant Sorrow) 129

  My silks and fine array 27

  My Spectre around me night & day 494

  My title as an [Artist] Genius thus is provd 619

  Nail his neck to the Cross nail it with a nail 629

  Nature & Art in this together Suit 620

  Naught loves another as itself (NPF) 150

  [Never (seek) pain to tell thy love…] 134

  No real Style of Colouring ever appears 609

  Nought loves another as itself (SE: A Little Boy Lost) 130

  [when] Now Art has lost its mental Charms 629

  O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained 22

  O dear Mother outline [be not in a Rage] of knowledge most sage 626

  O For a voice like thunder, and a tongue 59

  O holy virgin! clad in purest white 24

  O how sick & weary I 142

  O I say you Joe 73

  O lapwing thou fliest around the heath 141

  O Reader behold the Philosophers Grave 633

  O Rose thou art sick (NPF: The Sick Rose) 149

  O Rose thou art sick (SE: The Sick Rose) 123

  O thou, to whose fury the nations are 39

  O thou, who passest thro’ our vallies in 21

  O thou, with dewy locks, who lookest down 21

  O why was I born with a different face 487

  O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors 23

  Of H[ayley]s birth this was the happy lot 612

  Of the primeval Priests assum’d power 242

  Once a dream did weave a shade 115

  Phebe drest like beauties Queen 65

  P[hillips] loved me, not as he lovd his Friends 617

  Piping down the valleys wild 104

  [Mercy] Pity could be no mor
e 147

  Pity would be no more 128

  Prepare, prepare, the iron helm of war 60

  Rafael Sublime Majestic Graceful Wise 620

  Reader! [lover] of books! [lover] of heaven 636

  Remove away that blackning church 149, 159

  Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air 180

  [Rubens had been a Statesman or a Saint] 619

  Seeing this False Christ In fury & Passion 854

  Silent Silent Night 141

  Since all the Riches of this World 629

  Sir Jo[s]hua praised Rubens with a Smile 613

  Sir Joshua Praises Michael Angelo 612

  Sir Joshua sent his own Portrait to 615

  Sleep Sleep; in thy sleep 137

  Soft deceit & idleness 156

  Some look. to see the sweet Outlines 632

  Some people admire the work of a Fool 628

  Sound the Flute! 113

  S[tothard] in Childhood on the Nursery floor 612

  Sweet dreams form a shade 110

  Sweet Mary the first time she ever was there 503

  Swelld limbs with no outline that you can descry 620

  Terror in the house does roar 494

  That God is colouring Newton does shew 626

  The Angel that presided oer my birth 614

  The Argument. As the true method of knowledge 77

  The Argument. Man has no notion of moral fitness 75

  The bell struck one, and shook the silent tower 24

  The [visions] Caverns of the Grave Ive seen 630

  The [weal] countless gold of a merry heart 154

  The Cripple every step Drudges & labours 621

  The Cunning sures & the Aim at yours 622

  The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round their sunny flocks 78

  The dead brood over Europe, the cloud and vision descends over chearful France 162

  The Door of Death is made of Gold 608

  The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule 623

  The Eternal Female groand! 194

  ‘The fox, the owl, the spider, and the mole…’ 634

  The Good are attracted by Mens perceptions 157

  The harvest shall flourish in wintry weather 151

  The Hebrew Nation did not write it 497

  The Kings of Asia heard 239

  The little boy lost in the lonely fen 109

  The look of love alarms 156

  The Maiden caught me in the Wild 504

  The [rose puts envious] [lustful] modest rose puts forth a thorn (NPF) 144

  The modest Rose puts forth a thorn (SE: The Lilly) 126

  The only Man that eer I knew 624

  The shadowy daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc 208

  The Song of the Aged Mother which shook the heavens with wrath 274

  The [day] Sun arises in the East 152

  The sun descending in the west 112

  The Sun does arise 105

 

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