Quote #95
You'll quite remove the ancient curse.
More from William Blake
- What is it men in women do require? The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women in men require? The lineaments of gratified desire.
- Hear the voice of the Bard, Who present, past, and future, sees; Whose ears have heard The Holy Word That walked among the ancient trees.
- The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.
- Turn away no more; Why wilt thou turn away? The starry floor, The watery shore,> Is given thee till the break of day.
- He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise.
- Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair.
- Then old Nobodaddy aloft Farted and belched and coughed, And said, 'I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and …
- Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite.