William Blake's Poetry, by popularity

• From ‘Jerusalem’

  To the Christians
  

  21 lines
• From ‘Milton’

  AND did those feet in ancient time 
    Walk upon England’s mountains green? 

  18 lines
• Broken Love

  MY Spectre around me night and day 
  Like a wild beast guards my way; 

  83 lines
• The Invocation

  Daughters of Beulah! Muses who inspire the Poet's Song,
  Record the journey of immortal Milton thro' your realms

  14 lines
• To Thomas Butts

  TO my friend Butts I write
  My first vision of light,

  78 lines
• The Book of Urizen: Chapter IX

  1. Then the Inhabitants of those Cities:
  Felt their Nerves change into Marrow

  48 lines
• The Book of Urizen: Chapter VIII

  1. Urizen explor'd his dens
  Mountain, moor, & wilderness,

  54 lines
• The Book of Urizen: Chapter IV

  Los smitten with astonishment
  Frightend at the hurtling bones

  120 lines
• The Book of Urizen: Chapter III

  1. The voice ended, they saw his pale visage
  Emerge from the darkness; his hand

  75 lines
• The Book of Urizen: Chapter V

  1. In terrors Los shrunk from his task:
  His great hammer fell from his hand:

  81 lines
• The Book of Urizen: Chapter VII

  1. They named the child Orc, he grew
  Fed with milk of Enitharmon

  40 lines
• The Book of Urizen: Chapter VI

  1. But Los saw the Female & pitied
  He embrac'd her, she wept, she refus'd

  50 lines
• Why Should I Care for the Men of Thames

  Why should I care for the men of thames
  Or the cheating waves of charter'd streams

  8 lines
• The Book of Urizen: Chapter I

  1. Lo, a shadow of horror is risen
  In Eternity! Unknown, unprolific!

  35 lines, 2 comments
• The Book of Urizen: Preludium

  Of the primeval Priests assum'd power,
  When Eternals spurn'd back his religion;

  7 lines
• The Book of Urizen: Chapter II

  1. Earth was not: nor globes of attraction
  The will of the Immortal expanded

  50 lines
• The Song of Los

  AFRICA
  I will sing you a song of Los. the Eternal Prophet:

  134 lines
• Preludium to Europe

  The nameless shadowy female rose from out the breast of Orc,
  Her snaky hair brandishing in the winds of Enitharmon;

  34 lines
• Now Art Has Lost Its Mental Charms

  `Now Art has lost its mental charms
  France shall subdue the world in arms.'

  14 lines
• The Two Songs

  I heard an Angel Singing
  When the day was springing:

  19 lines
• My Spectre Around Me Night and Day

  My spectre around me night and day
  Like a wild beast guards my way;

  116 lines, 2 comments
• The Everlasting Gospel

  The vision of Christ that thou dost see
  Is my vision’s greatest enemy.

  336 lines, 1 comment
• I Asked A Thief To Steal Me A Peach

  I asked a thief to steal me a peach:
  He turn'd up his eyes.

  12 lines
• To Morning

  O holy virgin! clad in purest white,
  Unlock heav'n's golden gates, and issue forth;

  8 lines
• The Sky is an Immortal Tent Built by the Sons of Los (from

  The sky is an immortal tent built by the Sons of Los:
  And every space that a man views around his dwelling-place

  21 lines
• Song: Memory, hither come

  Memory, hither come,
  And tune your merry notes;

  16 lines
• The Birds

  He. Where thou dwellest, in what grove,
  Tell me Fair One, tell me Love;

  20 lines
• Preludium to America

  The shadowy Daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc,
  When fourteen suns had faintly journey'd o'er his dark abode:

  38 lines
• To Winter

  O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors:
  The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark

  16 lines
• To See

  To see a world in a grain of sand,
  And a heaven in a wild flower,

  3 lines, 1 comment

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