Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
The Book Of Urizen (Excerpts)
Lo, a shadow of horror is risenIn Eternity! Unknown, unprolific,Self-clos'd, all-repelling: what demonHath form'd this abominable void,This..
© William Blake
The Book Of Urizen: Preludium
Of the primeval Priests assum'd power,When Eternals spurn'd back his religion;And gave him a place in the north,Obscure, shadowy, void..
© William Blake
The Book Of Urizen: Chapter Vii
1. They named the child Orc, he grewFed with milk of Enitharmon2. Los awoke her; O sorrow & pain!A tight'ning girdle grew,Around his bosom. In..
© William Blake
The Book Of Urizen: Chapter Ix
1. Then the Inhabitants of those Cities:Felt their Nerves change into MarrowAnd hardening Bones beganIn swift diseases and torments,In throbbings..
© William Blake
The Sky Is An Immortal Tent Built By The Sons Of Los
The sky is an immortal tent built by the Sons of Los:And every space that a man views around his dwelling-placeStanding on his own roof or in his..
© William Blake
The Book Of Urizen: Chapter I
1. Lo, a shadow of horror is risenIn Eternity! Unknown, unprolific!Self-closd, all-repelling: what DemonHath form'd this abominable voidThis..
© William Blake
The Book Of Urizen: Chapter Ii
1. Earth was not: nor globes of attractionThe will of the Immortal expandedOr contracted his all flexible senses.Death was not, but eternal life..
© William Blake
To Thomas Butts
TO my friend Butts I writeMy first vision of light,On the yellow sands sitting.The sun was emittingHis glorious beamsFrom Heaven’s high streams.Over..
© William Blake
When Klopstock England Defied
When Klopstock England defied,Uprose William Blake in his pride;For old Nobodaddy aloft. . . and belch'd and cough'd;Then swore a great oath that..
© William Blake
The Book Of Thel
1 Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?2 Or wilt thou go ask the Mole?3 Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?4 Or Love in a golden bowl?I1.1 The..
© William Blake
The Four Zoas (Excerpt)
'What is the price of Experience? do men buy it for a song?Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the priceOf all that a man..
© William Blake
If It Is True What The Prophets Write
If it is true, what the Prophets write,That the heathen gods are all stocks and stones,Shall we, for the sake of being polite,Feed them with the..
© William Blake
Preludium To Europe
The nameless shadowy female rose from out the breast of Orc,Her snaky hair brandishing in the winds of Enitharmon;And thus her voice arose:'O mother..
© William Blake
The Question Answered
What is it men in women do require?The lineaments of gratified Desire.What is it women do in men require?The lineaments of gratified Desire
© William Blake
The Everlasting Gospel
The vision of Christ that thou dost seeIs my vision’s greatest enemy.Thine has a great hook nose like thine;Mine has a snub nose like to mine.Thine..
© William Blake
Jerusalem: England! Awake! Awake! Awake!
England! awake! awake! awake!Jerusalem thy Sister calls!Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of deathAnd close her from thy ancient walls?Thy hills and..
© William Blake
The Crystal Cabinet
The Maiden caught me in the wild,Where I was dancing merrily;She put me into her Cabinet,And lock'd me up with a golden key.This cabinet is form'd of..
© William Blake
The Little Girl Lost
In futurityI prophesy see.That the earth from sleep.(Grave the sentence deep)Shall arise and seekFor her maker meek:And the desart wildBecome a..
© William Blake
The Caverns Of The Grave I'Ve Seen
The Caverns of the Grave I've seen,And these I show'd to England's Queen.But now the Caves of Hell I view,Who shall I dare to show them to?What..
© William Blake
The Song Of Los
AFRICAI will sing you a song of Los. the Eternal Prophet:He sung it to four harps at the tables of Eternity.In heart-formed Africa.Urizen faded!..
© William Blake
The Little Girl Found
All the night in woe,Lyca's parents go:Over vallies deep.While the desarts weep.Tired and woe-begone.Hoarse with making moan:Arm in arm seven..
© William Blake
Song: Memory, Hither Come
Memory, hither come,And tune your merry notes;And, while upon the windYour music floats,I'll pore upon the streamWhere sighing lovers dream,And fish..
© William Blake
The French Revolution (Excerpt)
Thee the ancientest peer, Duke of Burgundy, rose from the monarch's right hand, red as winesFrom his mountains; an odor of war, like a ripe vineyard..
© William Blake
Gwin King Of Norway
Come, kings, and listen to my song:When Gwin, the son of Nore,Over the nations of the NorthHis cruel sceptre bore;The nobles of the land did feedUpon..
© William Blake
Song
My silks and fine array,My smiles and languish'd air,By love are driv'n away;And mournful lean DespairBrings me yew to deck my grave;Such end true..
© William Blake