More from William Blake

  1. How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes a…
  2. True superstition is ignorant honesty & this is beloved of god and man.
  3. 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…
  4. Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.
  5. 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: S…
  6. Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
  7. He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.
  8. They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin.

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