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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

William Blake
Kissing, Joy, Sunrise

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

William Blake
Love, Joy, Mind
William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.156, Pearson Education

How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

William Blake
Bird, Joy, Cages
William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.82, Routledge

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

William Blake
Atheist, Eggs, Joy
William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.

William Blake
Joy, Soul, Dawn

The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'.

William Blake
Love, Angel, Joy
William Blake (1899). “William Blake: XVII Designs to Thornton's Virgil, Reproduced from the Original Woodcuts, MDCCCXXI.”

Energy is eternal delight.

William Blake
Philosophy, Medicine, Joy
'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'The voice of the Devil'

Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.

William Blake
Men, Joy, Soul
"Auguries of Innocence". Poem by William Blake, 1803.

Joy and woe are woven fine.

William Blake
Joy, Woven, Woe
'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.

William Blake
Wife, Joy, Riches
William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.101, Routledge

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

William Blake
Joy, Sorrow
William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.166, Psychology Press

Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!

William Blake
Laughing, Joy, Sorrow
William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

William Blake
Garden, Joy, Black
William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.75, Routledge

Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.

William Blake
Baby, Sweet, Joy
William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.155, Pearson Education

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