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William Blake Quotes - Page 19

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The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.

The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.

Simple, Men, Age

William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.542, Univ of California Press

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

Truth, Math, Statistics

William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.474, Oxford University Press, USA

The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.

Love, Fire, Alarms

"Complete Writings: With Variant Readings". Book by William Blake, 1966.

When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.

Children, Heart, Voice

William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.58, Routledge

How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide!

Love, Summer, Sweet

William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.45, Pearson Education

For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

Love, Jealousy, Peace

'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Divine Image'

Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast.

Mother, Father, Struggle

William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.166, Oxford University Press, USA

For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

Hands, Wings, Want

William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.91, Pearson Education

Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.

Fire, Clouds, Arrows

Milton preface (1804 - 1810)

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

Song, Children, Water

William Blake, Andrew Lincoln (1991). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.143, Princeton University Press

O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.

Friendship, Enemy, Protect

William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.102, Univ of California Press

Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.

Happiness, Girl, Boys

William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.48, Routledge

I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

Angel, Singing, World

William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.96, Wordsworth Editions

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

Eagles, Bird, Genius

William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.116, Pearson Education

I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.

Education, Moving, School

William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.688, Pearson Education

Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb." So I piped with merry cheer; "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear.

Song, Cheer, Laughter

'Songs of Innocence' (1789) introduction

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