William Blake Quotes - Page 19

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• The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.

  William Blake

  Autumn, Garden, Light

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.4, Routledge

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• O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.

  William Blake

  Daughter, Song, Flower

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.409, Univ of California Press

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• When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.

  William Blake

  Children, Heart, Voice

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.58, Routledge

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• The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead.

  William Blake

  Crush, Tyrants, Purple

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.119, Penguin

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• The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.

  William Blake

  Lions, Foxes, God Provides

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.185, Penguin

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• For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

  William Blake

  Hands, Wings, Want

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.91, Pearson Education

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• O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me.
  Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Enemy, Protect

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.102, Univ of California Press

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• I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

  William Blake

  Angel, Singing, World

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.96, Wordsworth Editions

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• And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

  William Blake

  Song, Children, Water

  William Blake, Andrew Lincoln (1991). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.143, Princeton University Press

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• For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

  William Blake

  Love, Jealousy, Peace

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Divine Image'

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• Such, such were the joys
  When we all, girls and boys,
  In our youth time were seen
  On the Echoing Green.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Girl, Boys

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.48, Routledge

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• Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb." So I piped with merry cheer; "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear.

  William Blake

  Song, Cheer, Laughter

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) introduction

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• When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

  William Blake

  Eagles, Bird, Genius

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.116, Pearson Education

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• Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.

  William Blake

  Fire, Clouds, Arrows

  Milton preface (1804 - 1810)

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• I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.

  William Blake

  Education, Moving, School

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.688, Pearson Education

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• Struggling in my father's hands,
  Striving against my swaddling bands,
  Bound and weary, I thought best
  To sulk upon my mother's breast.

  William Blake

  Mother, Father, Struggle

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.166, Oxford University Press, USA

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