Category William Blake

In a wife I would desire What in whores is always found— The lineaments of Gratified desire.

Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But Desire Gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

The sword sang on the barren heath, The sickle in the fruitful field; The sword he sung a song of death, But could not make the sickle yield.

Come hither my sparrows My little arrows If a tear or a smile Will a man beguile If an amorous delay Clouds a sunshiny day If the [tread] step of a foot Smites the heart to its root Tis the…

The Sun arises in the East, Cloth’d in robes of blood and gold; Swords and spears and wrath increast All around his bosom roll’d Crown’d with warlike fires and raging desires.

The harvest shall flourish in wintry weather When two virginities meet together: The King & the Priest must be tied in a tether Before two virgins can meet together.

I walked abroad in a snowy day; I asked the soft snow with me to play; She played and she melted in all her prime, And the winter called it a dreadful crime.

As I wander’d the forest, The green leaves among, I heard a wild flower Singing a song. I slept in the Earth In the silent night, I murmur’d my fears And I felt delight. In the morning I went As…

There souls of men are bought and sold, And milk-fed Infancy for gold; And Youth to slaughter-houses led, And Beauty, for a bit of bread.

Love to faults is always blind; Always is to joy inclin’d, Lawless, wing’d and unconfin’d, And breaks all chains from every mind. Deceit to secrecy confin’d, Lawful, cautious and refin’d; To anything but interest blind, And forges fetters for the…