| Poetical Sketches |
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To Spring |
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To Summer |
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To Autumn |
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To Winter |
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To the Evening Star |
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To Morning |
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Fair Elenor |
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Song: How sweet I roam’d from field to field |
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Song: My silks and fine array |
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Song: Love and harmony combine |
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Song: I love the jocund dance |
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Song: Memory, hither come |
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Mad Song |
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Song: Fresh from the dewy hill, the merry year |
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Song: When early morn walks forth in sober grey |
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To the Muses |
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Gwin, King of Norway |
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An Imitation of Spenser |
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Blind Man’s Buff |
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King Edward the Third |
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Prologue, intended for a Dramatic Piece of King Edward the Fourth |
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Prologue to King John |
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A War Song to Englishmen |
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The Couch of Death |
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Contemplation |
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Samson |
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| Appendix to Poetical Sketches |
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Song by a Shepherd |
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Song by an Old Shepherd |
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| Songs from ‘An Island in The Moon’ |
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Little Phoebus came strutting in |
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Honour and Genius is all I ask |
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When Old Corruption first begun |
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Hear then the pride and knowledge of a sailor! |
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The Song of Phoebe and Jellicoe |
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Lo! the Bat with leathern wing |
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Want Matches? |
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As I walk’d forth one May morning |
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Hail Matrimony, made of Love! |
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To be or not to be |
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This city and this country has brought forth many mayors |
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O, I say, you Joe |
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Leave, O leave me to my sorrows |
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There’s Doctor Clash |
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| Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Engraved 1789–1794)
Songs of Innocence |
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Introduction |
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The Echoing Green |
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The Lamb |
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The Shepherd |
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Infant Joy |
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The Little Black Boy |
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Laughing Song |
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Spring |
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A Cradle Song |
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Nurse’s Song |
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Holy Thursday |
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The Blossom |
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The Chimney Sweeper |
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The Divine Image |
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Night |
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A Dream |
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On Another’s Sorrow |
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The Little Boy Lost |
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The Little Boy Found |
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| Songs of Experience |
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Introduction |
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Earth’s Answer |
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Nurse’s Song |
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The Fly |
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The Tiger |
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The Little Girl Lost |
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The Little Girl Found |
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The Clod and the Pebble |
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The Little Vagabond |
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Holy Thursday |
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A Poison Tree |
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The Angel |
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The Sick Rose |
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To Tirzah |
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The Voice of the Ancient Bard |
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My Pretty Rose-Tree |
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Ah! Sun-Flower |
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The Lily |
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The Garden of Love |
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A Little Boy Lost |
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Infant Sorrow |
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The Schoolboy |
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London |
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A Little Girl Lost |
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The Chimney-sweeper |
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The Human Abstract |
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| Appendix to the Songs of Innocence and of Experience |
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A Divine Image |
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| Poems from ‘The Rossetti Manuscript’ (circa 1793–1811), Sometimes Called ‘The Manuscript Book’
I. Earlier Poems (Written circa 1793) |
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Never seek to tell thy Love |
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I laid me down upon a Bank |
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I saw a Chapel all of Gold |
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I askèd a Thief |
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I heard an Angel singing |
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A Cradle Song |
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Silent, silent Night |
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I fear’d the fury of my wind |
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Infant Sorrow |
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Why should I care for the men of Thames |
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Thou hast a lap full of seed |
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In a Myrtle Shade |
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To my Myrtle |
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To Nobodaddy |
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Are not the joys of morning sweeter |
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The Wild Flower’s Song |
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Day |
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The Fairy |
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Motto to the Songs of Innocence and of Experience |
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[Lafayette] |
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| Appendix to the Earlier Poems in the Rossetti MS. |
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A Fairy leapt upon my knee |
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| II. Later Poems (Written circa 1800–1810) |
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My Spectre around me night and day |
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When Klopstock England defied |
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Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau |
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I saw a Monk of Charlemaine |
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Morning |
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The Birds |
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You don’t believe |
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If it is true what the Prophets write |
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I will tell you what Joseph of Arimathea |
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Why was Cupid a boy |
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Now Art has lost its mental charms |
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I rose up at the dawn of day |
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The Caverns of the Grave I’ve seen |
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| Addendum to the Later Poems in the Rossetti MS. |
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To the Queen |
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| III. (Written circa 1810) The Everlasting Gospel |
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Alpha |
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Beta |
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Gamma |
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Delta |
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Epsilon |
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Zeta |
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Eta |
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Theta |
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| The Pickering Manuscript (circa 1801–1803) |
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The Smile |
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The Golden Net |
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The Mental Traveller |
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The Land of Dreams |
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Mary |
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The Crystal Cabinet |
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The Grey Monk |
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Auguries of Innocence |
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Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell |
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William Bond |
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| Poems from Letters (1800–1803) |
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To my Dearest Friend, John Flaxman, these lines |
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To my dear Friend, Mrs. Anna Flaxman |
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[To Thomas Butts]: To my friend Butts I write |
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To Mrs. Butts |
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[To Thomas Butts]: With Happiness stretch’d across the hills |
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[To Thomas Butts]: O! why was I born with a different face? |
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| Gnomic Verses, Epigrams, and Short Satirical Pieces (Chiefly from ‘The Rossetti Manuscript’ circa 1793–1810) Gnomic Verses |
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet |
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To God |
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They said this mystery never shall cease |
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An Answer to the Parson |
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Lacedaemonian Instruction |
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Nail his neck to the cross: nail it with a nail |
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Love to faults is always blind |
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There souls of men are bought and sold |
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Soft Snow |
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Abstinence sows sand all over |
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Merlin’s Prophecy |
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If you trap the moment before it’s ripe |
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An Old Maid early ere I knew |
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The sword sung on the barren heath |
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O lapwing! thou fliest around the heath |
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Terror in the house does roar |
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Several Questions Answered |
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If I e’er grow to man’s estate |
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Since all the riches of this world |
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Riches |
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The Angel that presided o’er my birth |
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Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven |
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Do what you will this life’s a fiction |
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| On Art and Artists |
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Advice of the Popes who succeeded the Age of Raphael |
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On the great encouragement given by English nobility and gentry to Correggio, Rubens, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Catalani, Du Crow, and Dilbury Doodle |
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I askèd my dear friend Orator Prig |
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O dear Mother Outline! of wisdom most sage |
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[On the Foundation of the Royal Academy] |
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These are the idiots’ chiefest arts |
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The cripple every step drudges and labours |
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You say their pictures well painted be |
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When you look at a picture, you always can see |
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The Washerwoman’s Song |
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English Encouragement of Art: Cromek’s opinions put into rhyme |
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When I see a Rubens, Rembrandt, Correggio |
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Give pensions to the learned pig |
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[On Sir Joshua Reynolds’ disappointment at his first impressions of Raphael] |
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Sir Joshua praisèd Rubens with a smile |
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Sir Joshua praises Michael Angelo |
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Can there be anything more mean |
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To the Royal Academy |
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Florentine Ingratitude |
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No real style of colouring ever appears |
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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died |
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A Pitiful Case |
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[On Sir Joshua Reynolds] |
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I, Rubens, am a statesman and a saint |
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[On the school of Rubens] |
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To English Connoisseurs |
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A Pretty Epigram for the encouragement of those who have paid great sums in the Venetian and Flemish ooze |
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Raphael, sublime, majestic, graceful, wise |
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On the Venetian Painter |
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A pair of stays to mend the shape |
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Venetian! all thy colouring is no more |
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To Venetian Artists |
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All pictures that ’s painted with sense and with thought |
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Call that the public voice which is their error! |
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| On Friends and Foes |
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I am no Homer’s hero you all know |
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Anger and wrath my bosom rends |
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If you play a game of chance, know, before you begin |
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[Of Hayley’s birth]: Of H——’s birth this was the happy lot |
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[On Hayley]: To forgive enemies H—— does pretend |
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To H[ayley]: Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache |
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On H[ayle]y’s Friendship: When H——y finds out what you cannot do |
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On H[ayley] the Pickthank: I write the rascal thanks, till he and I |
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My title as a genius thus is prov’d |
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To F[laxman]: You call me mad, ’tis folly to do so |
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To F[laxman]: I mock thee not, though I by thee am mockèd |
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To Nancy F[laxman]: How can I help thy husband’s copying me? |
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To F[laxman] and S[tothard]: I found them blind: I taught them how to see |
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To S[tothar]d: You all your youth observ’d the golden rule |
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Cromek speaks: I always take my judgement from a fool |
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On S[tothard]: You say reserve and modesty he has |
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[On Stothard]: S——, in childhood, on the nursery floor |
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Mr. Stothard to Mr. Cromek: For Fortune’s favours you your riches bring |
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Mr. Cromek to Mr. Stothard: Fortune favours the brave, old proverbs say |
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[On Cromek]: Cr—— loves artists as he loves his meat |
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[On Cromek]: A petty sneaking knave I knew |
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[On P——]: P—— lovèd me not as he lov’d his friends |
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[On William Haines]: The Sussex men are noted fools |
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[On Fuseli]: The only man that e’er I knew |
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[To Hunt]: ‘Madman’ I have been call’d |
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To H[unt]: You think Fuseli is not a great painter |
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[On certain Mystics]: Cosway, Frazer, and Baldwin of Egypt’s lake |
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And his legs carried it like a long fork |
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For this is being a friend just in the nick |
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Was I angry with Hayley who us’d me so ill |
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Having given great offence by writing in prose |
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| Miscellaneous Epigrams |
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His whole life is an epigram, smart, smooth, and neatly penn’d |
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He has observ’d the golden rule |
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And in melodious accents I |
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Some people admire the work of a fool |
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He’s a blockhead who wants a proof of what he can’t perceive |
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Great men and fools do often me inspire |
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Some men, created for destruction, come |
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An Epitaph: Come knock your heads against this stone |
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Another: I was buried near this dyke |
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Another: Here lies John Trot, the friend of all mankind |
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When France got free, Europe, ’twixt fools and knaves |
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On the virginity of the Virgin Mary and Johanna Southcott |
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Imitation of Pope: a compliment to the Ladies |
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When a man has married a wife, he finds out whether |
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To Chloe’s breast young Cupid slyly stole |
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| Tiriel |
| The Book of Thel |
| The Marriage of Heaven and Hell |
| The French Revolution |
| A Song of Liberty |
| Visions of the Daughters of Albion |
| America: A Prophecy |
| Europe: A Prophecy |
| The [First] Book of Urizen |
| The Song of Los: Africa |
| The Song of Los: Asia |
| The Book of Los |
| The Book of Ahania |
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| Selections from ‘The Four Zoas’ |
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[Introduction to Night the First] |
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[The Wanderer] |
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[A Vision of Eternity] |
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[The Song sung at the Feast of Los and Enitharmon] |
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[The Song of Enitharmon over Los] |
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[The Wail of Enion] |
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[Winter] |
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[The Woes of Urizen in the Dens of Urthona] |
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[Los in his Wrath] |
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[The War-Song of Orc] |
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[Vala’s Going Forth] |
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[Urizen’s Words of Wisdom] |
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[The Shade of Enitharmon] |
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[The Serpent Orc] |
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[The Last Judgement] |
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[The Lament of Albion] |
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[Accuser and Accused] |
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[The Tillage of Urizen] |
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[Song of the Sinless Soul] |
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[Vala in Lower Paradise] |
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| Selections from ‘Milton’ (Engraved 1804–1809) |
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Preface |
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[The Invocation] |
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[The Mills of Satan] |
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[The Sin of Leutha] |
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[Milton’s Journey to Eternal Death] |
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[The Nature of Infinity] |
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[The Sea of Time and Space] |
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[The Mundane Shell] |
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[A River in Eden] |
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[Los] |
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[Swedenborg] |
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[Whitefield and Wesley] |
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[The Forge of Los] |
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[The Wine-Press of Los] |
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[The Building of Time] |
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[The Heavens and the Earth] |
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[The Birds and the Flowers] |
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[Love and Jealousy] |
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[Reason and Imagination] |
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[The Song of the Shadowy Female] |
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| Selections from ‘Jerusalem’ (Engraved 1804–? 1820) |
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To the Public |
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[Introduction] |
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[The Reasoning Power] |
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[The Words of Los] |
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[The Builders of Golgonooza] |
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[A Vision of Albion] |
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[Punishment and Forgiveness] |
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[The Lament of Albion] |
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[Jerusalem] |
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To the Jews |
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[A Female Will] |
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[The Universal Family] |
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[Man’s Spectre] |
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[Pretences] |
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[Fourfold and Twofold Vision] |
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[The Remembrance of Sin] |
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To the Deists |
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[Albion’s Spectre] |
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[The Holiness of Minute Particulars] |
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[A Vision of Joseph and Mary] |
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[Tirzah] |
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[The Warrior and the Daughter of Albion] |
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[Men and States] |
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To the Christians |
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[A Vision of Jerusalem] |
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[The Worship of God] |
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[The Cry of Los] |
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[Albion upon the Rock] |
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[The Wrath of God] |
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[The Divine Image] |
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[The End of the Song of Jerusalem] |
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| Verses from ‘For the Sexes’ and ‘The Gates of Paradise’ (circa 1810)
Verses from ‘The Gates of Paradise’ |
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[Prologue] |
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The Keys of the Gates |
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[Epilogue]. To the Accuser who is The God of this World |
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The Ghost of Abel |
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| Appendix to the Prophetic Books |
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There is No Natural Religion |
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All Religions are One |
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[From Blake’s Engraving of the Laocoon] |
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On Homer’s Poetry |
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On Virgil |
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| From Blake’s ‘Descriptive Catalogue’ (1809) |
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Sir Geffrey Chaucer and the Nine and twenty Pilgrims on their journey to Canterbury |
