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William Blake

William Blake

Little Phoebus came strutting in

LITTLE PHOEBUS came strutting in,  
With his fat belly and his round chin  
What is it you would please to have?  
Ho! Ho!  
I won’t let it go at only so and so!

Songs from ‘An Island in The Moon’

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Prologue, intended for a Dramatic Piece of King Edward the Fourth

O FOR a voice like thunder, and… To drown the throat of war! When… Are shaken, and the soul is driven… Who can stand? When the souls of… Fight in the troubled air that rag…
Soft Snow

I walked abroad in a snowy day; I asked the soft snow with me to p… She played and she melted in all h… And the winter called it a dreadfu…
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The Mental Traveller

I travell’d thro’ a land of men, A land of men and women too; And heard and saw such dreadful th… As cold earth—wanderers never knew… For there the Babe is born in joy
The Fly

Little fly, Thy summer’s play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I
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Lo! the Bat with leathern wing

LO! the Bat with leathern wing, Winking and blinking, Winking and blinking, Winking and blinking, Like Dr. Johnson.
The Human Abstract

Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody poor, And Mercy no more could be If all were as happy as we. And mutual fear brings Peace,
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Introduction to the Songs of Innocence

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!”
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Earth's Answer

Earth rais’d up her head From the darkness dread and drear. Her light fled, Stony dread! And her locks cover’d with grey de…
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The Grey Monk

`I die, I die!' the Mother said, `My children die for lack of bread… What more has the merciless tyrant… The Monk sat down on the stony be… The blood red ran from the Grey M…
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Spring

Sound the flute! Now it’s mute. Birds delight Day and night. Nightingale
The Pickering MS. William Bond

I wonder whether the girls are mad… And I wonder whether they mean to… And I wonder if William Bond wil… For assuredly he is very ill. He went to church in a May mornin…
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Songs of Innocence: Laughing Song

WHEN the green woods laugh with… And the dimpling stream runs laugh… When the air does laugh with our m… And the green hill laughs with the… When the meadows laugh with lively…
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Song: Memory, hither come

Memory, hither come, And tune your merry notes; And, while upon the wind Your music floats, I’ll pore upon the stream
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Mary

Sweet Mary, the first time she ev… Came into the ball—room among the… The young men and maidens around h… And these are the words upon every… `An Angel is here from the heaven…
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Jerusalem ["And did those feet in ancient time"]

And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England’s mountains gre… And was the holy Lamb of God On England’s pleasant pastures se… And did the Countenance Divine
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