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  • Auguries of Innocence
    To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    132 lines, 4 comments
  • I Heard an Angel
    I heard an Angel singing
    When the day was springing,
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • When Klopstock England Defied
    When Klopstock England defied,
    Uprose William Blake in his pride;
    24 lines
  • I Saw a Chapel
    I saw a chapel all of gold
    That none did dare to enter in,
    17 lines
  • If It Is True What the Prophets Write
    If it is true, what the Prophets write,
    That the heathen gods are all stocks and stones,
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • Never Seek to Tell thy Love
    Never seek to tell thy love
    Love that never told can be;
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • The Birds
    He. Where thou dwellest, in what grove,
    Tell me Fair One, tell me Love;
    20 lines
  • The Grey Monk (excerpts)
    "I die, I die!" the Mother said,
    "My children die for lack of bread.
    36 lines
  • The Caverns of the Grave I've Seen
    The Caverns of the Grave I've seen,
    And these I show'd to England's Queen.
    20 lines
  • Day
    The Sun arises in the East,
    Cloth'd in robes of blood and gold;
    5 lines, 1 comment
  • Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau
    Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau;
    Mock on, mock on; 'tis all in vain!
    12 lines
  • Eternity
    He who binds to himself a joy
    Does the winged life destroy;
    4 lines, 2 comments
  • You Don't Believe
    You don't believe -- I won't attempt to make ye:
    You are asleep -- I won't attempt to wake ye.
    12 lines, 2 comments
  • The Song of Los
    AFRICA
    I will sing you a song of Los. the Eternal Prophet:
    134 lines
  • I Rose Up at the Dawn of Day
    I rose up at the dawn of day--
    `Get thee away! get thee away!
    28 lines
  • Fair Elanor
    The bell struck one, and shook the silent tower;
    The graves give up their dead: fair Elenor
    72 lines
  • To Nobodaddy
    Why art thou silent & invisible
    Father of jealousy
    10 lines, 1 comment

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