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BLAKE'S POETRY AND DESIGNS -- POETRY

Art, by William Blake

POETICAL SKETCHES

• To Spring
• To Summer
• To Autumn
• To Winter
• To the Evening Star
• To Morning
• Fair Elenor
• Song
• Song
• Song
• Song
• Song
• Mad Song
• Song
• Song
• To the Muses
• Gwin King of Norway
• An Imitation of Spenser
• Blind Man's Buff
• King Edward the Third
• Prologue, intended for a Dramatic Piece of King Edward the Fourth
• Prologue to King John
• A War Song to Englishmen
• The Couch of Death
• Contemplation
• Samson
• Song by a Shepherd
• Song by an Old Shepherd

SONG FROM AN ISLAND IN THE MOON

Songs of Innocence

• Introduction
• The Echoing Green
• The Lamb
• The Shepherd
• Infant Joy
• The Little Black Boy
• Laughing Song
• Spring
• A Cradle Song
• Nurse's Song
• Holy Thursday
• The Blossom
• The Chimney Sweeper
• The Divine Image
• Night
• A Dream
• On Another's Sorrow
• The Little Boy Lost
• The Little Boy Found

SONGS OF EXPERIENCE

• Introduction
• Earth's Answer
• Nurse's Song
• The Fly
• The Tiger
• The Little Girl Lost
• The Little Girl Found
• The Cold and the Pebble
• The Little Vagabond
• Holy Thursday
• A Poison Tree
• The Angel
• The Sick Rose
• To Tirzah
• The Voice of the Ancient Bard
• My Pretty Rose-Tree
• Ah! Sun-Flower
• The Lily
• The Garden of Love
• A Little Boy Lost
• Infant Sorrow
• The Schoolboy
• London
• A Little Girl Lost
• The Chimney-sweeper
• The Human Abstract
• A Divine Image

POEMS FROM THE ROSSETTI MANUSCRIPT PART I

• Never seek to tell thy Love
• I laid me down upon a Bank
• I saw a Chapel all of Gold
• I asked a Thief
• I heard an Angel singing
• A Cradle Song
• Silent, silent Night
• I fear'd the fury of my wind
• Infant Sorrow
• Why should I care for the men of Thames
• Thou has a lap full of seed
• In a Myrtle Shade
• To my Myrtle
• To Nobodaddy
• Are not the joys of morning sweeter
• The Wild Flower's Song
• Day
• The Fairy
• Motto to the Songs of Innocence and Experience
• Lafayette

POEMS FROM THE ROSSETTI MANUSCRIPT PART II

• My Spectre around me night and day
• When Klopstock England defied
• Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau
• I saw a Monk of Charlemaine
• Morning
• The Birds
• You don't believe
• If it is true what the prophets write
• Why was Cupid a boy
• Now Art has lost its mental charms
• I rose up at the dawn of day
• The Caverns of the Grave I've seen
• To the Queen

POEMS FROM THE ROSSETTI MANUSCRIPT PART III

• The Everlasting Gospel

THE PICKERING MANUSCRIPT

• The Smile
• The Golden Net
• The Mental Traveller
• The Land of Dreams
• Mary
• The Crystal Cabinet
• The Grey Monk
• Auguries of Innocence
• Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell

WILLIAM BOND POEMS FROM LETTERS

• To my dearest Friend, John Flaxman, these lines
• To my dear Friend, Mrs. Anna Flaxman
• To Thomas Butts
• To Mrs. Butts
• To Thomas Butts
• To Thomas Butts

GNOMIC VERSES

ON ART AND ARTISTS

ON FRIENDS AND FOES

TIRIEL

THE BOOK OF THEL

THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL

• The Argument
• The Voice of the Devil
• A Memorable Fancy
• Proverbs of Hell
• A Memorable Fancy
• A Memorable Fancy
• A Memorable Fancy
• A Memorable Fancy

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

A SONG OF LIBERTY

VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION

AMERICA:  A PROPHECY

EUROPE:  A PROPHECY

THE BOOK OF URIZEN

THE SONG OF LOS

THE BOOK OF AHANIA

SELECTIONS FROM THE FOUR ZOAS

• Introduction to Night the First

• The Wanderer

• A Vision of Eternity

• The Song sung at the Feast of Los and Enitharmon

• The Song of Enitharmon over Los

• The Wail of Enion

• Winter

• The Woes of Urizen in the Dens of Urthona

• Los in his Wrath

• The War-Song of Orc

• Vala's Going Forth

• Urizen's Words of Wisdom

• The Shade of Enitharmon

• The Serpent Orc

• The Last Judgement

• The lament of Albion

• Accuser and Accused

• Song of the Sinless Soul

• Vala in Lower Paradise

SELECTIONS FROM MILTON

• Preface

• The Invocation

• The Mills of Satan

• The Sin of Leutha

• Milton's Journey to Eternal Death

• The Nature of Infinity

• The Sea of Time and Space

• The Mundane Shell

• A River in Eden

• Los

• Swedenborg

• Whitefield and Wesley

• The Forge of Los

• The Wine-Press of Los

• The Building of Time

• The Birds and the Flowers

• Love and Jealousy

• Reason and Imagination

• The Song of the Shadowy Female

SELECTIONS FROM JERUSALEM

• Introduction

• The Reasoning Power

• The Words of Los

• The Builders of Golgonooza

• A Vision of Albion

• Punishment and Forgiveness

• The Lament of Albion

• Jerusalem

• To the Jews

• A Female Will

• The Universal Family

• Man's Spectre

• Pretences

• Fourfold and Twofold Vision

• The Remembrance of Sin

• To the Deists

• Albion's Spectre

• The Holiness of Minute Particulars

• A Vision of Joseph and Mary

• Tirzah

• The warrior and the Daughter of Albion

• Men and States

• To the Christians

• A Vision of Jerusalem

• The Worship of God

• The Cry of Los

• Albion upon the Rock

• The Wrath of God

• The Divine Image

• The End of the Song of Jerusalem

VERSES FROM 'THE GATES OF PARADISE'

• Prologue

• The Keys

• Of the Gates

• Epilogue

THE GHOST OF ABEL

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