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").
Night
The sun descending in the west,The evening star does shine;The birds are silent in their nest,And I must seek for mine.The moon, like a flower,In..
© William Blake
Three Things To Remember
A Robin Redbreast in a cage,Puts all Heaven in a rage.A skylark wounded on the wingDoth make a cherub cease to sing.He who shall hurt the little..
© William Blake
Eternity
He who binds to himself a joyDoes the winged life destroy;But he who kisses the joy as it fliesLives in eternity's sun rise.
© William Blake
A Song
Sweet dreams, form a shadeO'er my lovely infant's head!Sweet dreams of pleasant streamsBy happy, silent, moony beams!Sweet Sleep, with soft downWeave..
© William Blake
The Garden Of Love
I went to the Garden of Love,And saw what I never had seen;A Chapel was built in the midst,Where I used to play on the green.And the gates of this..
© William Blake
And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time
And did those feet in ancient timeWalk upon England's mountains green?And was the holy Lamb of GodOn England's pleasant pastures seen?And did the..
© William Blake
A War Song To Englishmen
Prepare, prepare the iron helm of war,Bring forth the lots, cast in the spacious orb;Th' Angel of Fate turns them with mighty hands,And casts them..
© William Blake
Ah Sunflower
Ah Sunflower, weary of time,Who countest the steps of the sun;Seeking after that sweet golden climeWhere the traveller's journey is done;Where the..
© William Blake
A Dream
Once a dream did weave a shadeO'er my angel-guarded bed,That an emmet lost its wayWhere on grass methought I lay.Troubled, wildered, and..
© William Blake
London
I wandered through each chartered street,Near where the chartered Thames does flow,A mark in every face I meet,Marks of weakness, marks of woe.In..
© William Blake
Broken Love
MY Spectre around me night and dayLike a wild beast guards my way;My Emanation far withinWeeps incessantly for my sin.‘A fathomless and boundless..
© William Blake
A Little Boy Lost
Nought loves another as itself,Nor venerates another so,Nor is it possible to thoughtA greater than itself to know.'And, father, how can I love youOr..
© William Blake
A Little Girl Lost
Children of the future age,Reading this indignant page,Know that in a former timeLove, sweet love, was thought a crime.In the age of gold,Free from..
© William Blake
A Cradle Song
Sweet dreams form a shade,O'er my lovely infants head.Sweet dreams of pleasant streams,By happy silent moony beamsSweet sleep with soft down.Weave..
© William Blake
The Angel
I dreamt a dream! What can it mean?And that I was a maiden QueenGuarded by an Angel mild:Witless woe was ne'er beguiled!And I wept both night and..
© William Blake
Love's Secret
Never seek to tell thy love,Love that never told can be;For the gentle wind does moveSilently, invisibly.I told my love, I told my love,I told her..
© William Blake
A Divine Image
Cruelty has a human heart,And Jealousy a human face;Terror the human form divine,And Secresy the human dress.The human dress is forged iron,The human..
© William Blake
Auguries Of Innocence
To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild Flower,Hold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour.A Robin Red breast in a..
© William Blake
The Tyger
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright,In the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry?In what distant deeps or..
© William Blake
A Poison Tree
I was angry with my friend:I told my wrath, my wrath did end.I was angry with my foe:I told it not, my wrath did grow.And I watered it in fears,Night..
© William Blake
Not Probable—the Barest Chance
346Not probable—The barest Chance—A smile too few—a word too muchAnd far from Heaven as the Rest—The Soul so close on Paradise—What if the Bird from..
© Emily Dickinson
Some Such Butterfly Be Seen
541Some such Butterfly be seenOn Brazilian Pampas—Just at noon—no later—Sweet—Then—the License closes—Some such Spice—express and pass—Subject to..
© Emily Dickinson
The Day That I Was Crowned
356The Day that I was crownedWas like the other Days—Until the Coronation came—And then—'twas Otherwise—As Carbon in the CoalAnd Carbon in the GemAre..
© Emily Dickinson
I Showed Her Heights She Never Saw
446I showed her Heights she never saw—"Would'st Climb," I said?She said—"Not so"—"With me—" I said—With me?I showed her Secrets—Morning's Nest—The..
© Emily Dickinson
Shells From The Coast Mistaking
693Shells from the Coast mistaking—I cherished them for All—Happening in After AgesTo entertain a Pearl—Wherefore so late—I murmured—My need of..
© Emily Dickinson