I rose up at the dawn of day,— / “Get thee away! get thee away! / Pray’st thou for riches? Away, away! / This is the throne of Mammon grey. |
—Mammon. |
William Blake |
William Blake
Title: William Blake
Author: William Blake
I rose up at the dawn of day,— / “Get thee away! get thee away! / Pray’st thou for riches? Away, away! / This is the throne of Mammon grey. |
—Mammon. |
William Blake |
Title: William Blake
Author: William Blake
The Poetical Works
The Oxford Blake is the highpoint of editions of the great mystical poet of the Romantic era.
Cradle Song; Hear the Voice; Little Black Boy; Love’s Secret; Night; Night; Reeds of Innocence; Song; Song; The Tiger; The Tiger; To Spring; To Spring; To the Muses; The Everlasting Gospel; The Divine Image; Broken Love; The Crystal Cabinet; Auguries of Innocence; To Thomas Butts; From ‘Milton’; From ‘Jerusalem’; Ah! Sun-Flower; Reeds of Innocence; Night; Auguries of Innocence; Nurse’s Song; Holy Thursday; The Divine Image
“Blake”
Chapter by J. P. R. Wallis with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.