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Quotes from Poems from Blake's Notebook — William Blake

1757–1827 England

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Terror in the house does roar,
But Pity stands before the door.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1804)

Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joys inclined,
Lawless, winged, and unconfined,
And breaks all chains from every mind.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1791)

Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,
I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1807)

Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1807)

The look of love alarms
Because 'tis filled with fire;
But the look of soft deceit
Shall win the lover's hire.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1791)

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

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1791)

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau.
Mock on, mock on — 'tis all in vain!
You throw the sand against the wind,
And the wind blows it back again.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1804)

If you have formed a circle to go into,
Go into it yourself and see how you would do.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1807)

He who binds to himself a joy
Does the wingèd life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1791)

And throughout all eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1804)

Why art thou silent and invisible,
Father of Jealousy?

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1791)

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,
Dreaming o'er the joys of night.
Sleep, sleep: in thy sleep
Little sorrows sit and weep.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1791)

The sword sung 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.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1791)

You'll quite remove the ancient curse.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1791)

My specter around me night and day
Like a wild beast guards my way,
My emanation far within
Weeps incessantly for my sin.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1804)

What is it men in women do require?
The lineaments of gratified desire.
What is it women do in men require?
The lineaments of gratified desire.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1791)

If you trap the moment before it's ripe,
The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe;
But if once you let the ripe moment go
You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1791)

Then old Nobodaddy aloft
Farted and belched and coughed,
And said, "I love hanging and drawing and quartering
Every bit as well as war and slaughtering."

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1791)

The Angel that presided o'er my birth
Said, "Little creature, formed of joy and mirth,
Go love without the help of any thing on earth."

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1807)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Blake (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.