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William Blake

William Blake

Hear then the pride and knowledge of a sailor!

HEAR then the pride and knowledge of a sailor!  
His sprit sail, fore sail, main sail, and his mizen.  
A poor frail man—God wot! I know none frailer,  
I know no greater sinner than John Taylor.

Songs from ‘An Island in The Moon’

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To Summer

O THOU who passest thro’ our val… Thy strength, curb thy fierce stee… That flames from their large nostr… Oft pitched’st here thy golden ten… Beneath our oaks hast slept, while…
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Infant Joy

“I have no name: I am but two days old.” What shall I call thee? “I happy am, Joy is my name.”
Song by a Shepherd

WELCOME, 1 stranger, to this pl… Where joy doth sit on every bough, Paleness flies from every face; We reap not what we do not sow. Innocence doth like a rose
The Echoing Green

The sun does arise, And make happy the skies. The merry bells ring To welcome the spring. The skylark and thrush,
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Song: How sweet I roam’d from field to field

HOW sweet 1 I roam’d from field… And tasted all the summer’s pride, Till I the Prince of Love beheld Who in the sunny beams did glide! He show’d me lilies for my hair,
Spring

Sound the flute! Now it’s mute. Birds delight Day and night. Nightingale
The Little Boy Lost

“Father, father, where are you goi… O do not walk so fast. Speak, father, speak to your littl… Or else I shall be lost.” The night was dark, no father was…
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Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell

Little Mary Bell had a Fairy in… Long John Brown had the Devil in… Long John Brown lov’d little Mar… And the Fairy drew the Devil into… Her Fairy skipp’d out and her Fai…
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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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Tiger on the Watch, by Jean-Léon Gérôme
The Tyger

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies
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Introduction to the Songs of Experience

Hear the voice of the Bard! Who Present, Past, and Future, s… Whose ears have heard The Holy Word That walk’d among the ancient tree…
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Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field

How sweet I roam’d from field to… And tasted all the summer’s pride, 'Till I the prince of love beheld… Who in the sunny beams did glide! He shew’d me lilies for my hair,
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America, a Prophecy, Plates 3 and 4

[PLATE 3] The Guardian Prince of Albion bu… Sullen fires across the Atlantic… Piercing the souls of warlike men,… Washington, Franklin, Paine & Wa…
Want Matches?

1st Vo. WANT Matches? 2nd Vo. Yes! Yes! Yes! 1st Vo. Want Matches? 2nd Vo. No! 1st Vo. Want Matches?
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The Divine Image

To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray in their distress; And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love



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