William Blake
Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.Collection: Heaven
All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.Collection: Future
Dip him in the river who loves water.Collection: Rivers
I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.Collection: House
When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.Collection: Mother
Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.Collection: Wine
If others had not been foolish, we should be so.Collection: Foolish
Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.Collection: Art
Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.Collection: Baby
England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?Collection: Sister
The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.Collection: Lions
The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy . Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government .Collection: Night
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!Collection: Truth
The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead.Collection: Crush
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.Collection: Eye
But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.Collection: Summer
The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.Collection: Autumn
My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appallsCollection: Brother
May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.Collection: Sleep
O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.Collection: Daughter
God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.Collection: Night
Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?Collection: Wisdom
Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.Collection: Joy
Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.Collection: Art
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.Collection: Atheism
A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.Collection: Dog
One law for the lion and ox is oppression.Collection: Government
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.Collection: Time
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?Collection: Motivational
It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.Collection: Affliction
Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talentCollection: Forgiving
If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.Collection: Spiritual
He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.Collection: Revenge
God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.Collection: Men
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?Collection: Different Faces
Heaven is in a grain of sand.Collection: Heaven
Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.Collection: Passion
Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.Collection: Men
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.Collection: Hypocrite
Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!Collection: Titles
He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.Collection: Hurt
Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.Collection: Death
God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.Collection: Jesus
O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.Collection: Summer
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.Collection: Lust
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.Collection: Eye