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If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

William Blake

Tears, Wipe, Woe

William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.103, Penguin

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The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.

William Blake

Enemy, Vision, Christ

'The Everlasting Gospel' (c.1818) (a) l. 1

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The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.

William Blake

Jesus, Art, Art Is

William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.767, Univ of California Press

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Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!

William Blake

Laughing, Joy, Sorrow

William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?

William Blake

Time, Feet, Mountain

Milton preface (1804 - 1810)

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The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.

William Blake

Lust, Goats, Glory Of God

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

William Blake

Kings, Heaven, Misery

William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.170, Pearson Education

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How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

William Blake

Cutting, Bird, Delight

William Blake (1975). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.51, Oxford Paperbacks

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The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.

William Blake

Stars, Soul

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

William Blake

Truth, Hair, Dust

William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.686, Pearson Education

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The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

William Blake

Party, Angel, Knowing

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "The Voice of the Devil" (note) (1790 - 1793)

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A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

William Blake

Wings, Singing, Doe

'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 9

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O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

William Blake

Dark, Winter, Doors

William Blake (1953). “Selected poetry and prose”, Random House Inc

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When a Man has Married a WifeHe finds out whetherHer Knees & elbows are onlyglued together.

William Blake

Men, Together, Elbows

William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.804, Delphi Classics

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And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

William Blake

Garden, Joy, Black

William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.75, Routledge

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I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

William Blake

Happiness, Baby, Sweet

William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.71, Penguin

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Think not thou canst sigh a sigh
And thy maker is not by;
Think not thou canst weep a tear
And thy maker is not near.

William Blake

God, Thinking, Tears

William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.60, Routledge

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The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laugh'd
And all the hills echoed

William Blake

Laughing, Littles, Hills

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My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.

William Blake

Love, Air, Yew

William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.413, Univ of California Press

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The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem's pillars stood.

William Blake

Gold, Fields, Pillars

'Jerusalem' (1815) 'To the Jews' (plate 27, l. 1) "The fields from Islington to Marybone"

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Imitation is criticism.

William Blake

Criticism, Artistic, Imitation

William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.453, Oxford University Press, USA

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Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?

William Blake

Sheep, Lambs, Littles

'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Lamb'

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Like a fiend in a cloud,
With howling woe,
After night I do crowd,
And with night will go;
I turn my back to the east,
From whence comforts have increased;
For light doth seize my brain
With frantic pain.

William Blake

Pain, Night, Clouds

"Poetical Sketches". Book by William Blake, 1783.

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Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

William Blake

Art, Men, Perfection

William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.451, Penguin

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Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow filled? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan, an infant fear? No, no! never can it be! Never, never can it be!

William Blake

Mother, Children, Father

'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'On Another's Sorrow'

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Born: November 28, 1757
Died: August 12, 1827
Occupation: Poet
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