| Poetical Sketches |
| | To Spring |
| | To Summer |
| | To Autumn |
| | To Winter |
| | To the Evening Star |
| | To Morning |
| | Fair Elenor |
| | Song: How sweet I roam’d from field to field |
| | Song: My silks and fine array |
| | Song: Love and harmony combine |
| | Song: I love the jocund dance |
| | Song: Memory, hither come |
| | Mad Song |
| | Song: Fresh from the dewy hill, the merry year |
| | Song: When early morn walks forth in sober grey |
| | To the Muses |
| | Gwin, King of Norway |
| | An Imitation of Spenser |
| | Blind Man’s Buff |
| | King Edward the Third |
| | Prologue, intended for a Dramatic Piece of King Edward the Fourth |
| | Prologue to King John |
| | A War Song to Englishmen |
| | The Couch of Death |
| | Contemplation |
| | Samson |
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| Appendix to Poetical Sketches |
| | Song by a Shepherd |
| | Song by an Old Shepherd |
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| Songs from ‘An Island in The Moon’ |
| | Little Phoebus came strutting in |
| | Honour and Genius is all I ask |
| | When Old Corruption first begun |
| | Hear then the pride and knowledge of a sailor! |
| | The Song of Phoebe and Jellicoe |
| | Lo! the Bat with leathern wing |
| | Want Matches? |
| | As I walk’d forth one May morning |
| | Hail Matrimony, made of Love! |
| | To be or not to be |
| | This city and this country has brought forth many mayors |
| | O, I say, you Joe |
| | Leave, O leave me to my sorrows |
| | There’s Doctor Clash |
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Engraved 1789–1794)
Songs of Innocence |
| | Introduction |
| | The Echoing Green |
| | The Lamb |
| | The Shepherd |
| | Infant Joy |
| | The Little Black Boy |
| | Laughing Song |
| | Spring |
| | A Cradle Song |
| | Nurse’s Song |
| | Holy Thursday |
| | The Blossom |
| | The Chimney Sweeper |
| | The Divine Image |
| | Night |
| | A Dream |
| | On Another’s Sorrow |
| | The Little Boy Lost |
| | The Little Boy Found |
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| Songs of Experience |
| | Introduction |
| | Earth’s Answer |
| | Nurse’s Song |
| | The Fly |
| | The Tiger |
| | The Little Girl Lost |
| | The Little Girl Found |
| | The Clod and the Pebble |
| | The Little Vagabond |
| | Holy Thursday |
| | A Poison Tree |
| | The Angel |
| | The Sick Rose |
| | To Tirzah |
| | The Voice of the Ancient Bard |
| | My Pretty Rose-Tree |
| | Ah! Sun-Flower |
| | The Lily |
| | The Garden of Love |
| | A Little Boy Lost |
| | Infant Sorrow |
| | The Schoolboy |
| | London |
| | A Little Girl Lost |
| | The Chimney-sweeper |
| | The Human Abstract |
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| Appendix to the Songs of Innocence and of Experience |
| | A Divine Image |
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Poems from ‘The Rossetti Manuscript’ (circa 1793–1811), Sometimes Called ‘The Manuscript Book’
I. Earlier Poems (Written circa 1793) |
| | Never seek to tell thy Love |
| | I laid me down upon a Bank |
| | I saw a Chapel all of Gold |
| | I askèd a Thief |
| | I heard an Angel singing |
| | A Cradle Song |
| | Silent, silent Night |
| | I fear’d the fury of my wind |
| | Infant Sorrow |
| | Why should I care for the men of Thames |
| | Thou hast a lap full of seed |
| | In a Myrtle Shade |
| | To my Myrtle |
| | To Nobodaddy |
| | Are not the joys of morning sweeter |
| | The Wild Flower’s Song |
| | Day |
| | The Fairy |
| | Motto to the Songs of Innocence and of Experience |
| | [Lafayette] |
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| Appendix to the Earlier Poems in the Rossetti MS. |
| | A Fairy leapt upon my knee |
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| II. Later Poems (Written circa 1800–1810) |
| | My Spectre around me night and day |
| | When Klopstock England defied |
| | Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau |
| | I saw a Monk of Charlemaine |
| | Morning |
| | The Birds |
| | You don’t believe |
| | If it is true what the Prophets write |
| | I will tell you what Joseph of Arimathea |
| | Why was Cupid a boy |
| | Now Art has lost its mental charms |
| | I rose up at the dawn of day |
| | The Caverns of the Grave I’ve seen |
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| Addendum to the Later Poems in the Rossetti MS. |
| | To the Queen |
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| III. (Written circa 1810) The Everlasting Gospel |
| | Alpha |
| | Beta |
| | Gamma |
| | Delta |
| | Epsilon |
| | Zeta |
| | Eta |
| | Theta |
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| The Pickering Manuscript (circa 1801–1803) |
| | The Smile |
| | The Golden Net |
| | The Mental Traveller |
| | The Land of Dreams |
| | Mary |
| | The Crystal Cabinet |
| | The Grey Monk |
| | Auguries of Innocence |
| | Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell |
| | William Bond |
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| Poems from Letters (1800–1803) |
| | To my Dearest Friend, John Flaxman, these lines |
| | To my dear Friend, Mrs. Anna Flaxman |
| | [To Thomas Butts]: To my friend Butts I write |
| | To Mrs. Butts |
| | [To Thomas Butts]: With Happiness stretch’d across the hills |
| | [To Thomas Butts]: O! why was I born with a different face? |
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| Gnomic Verses, Epigrams, and Short Satirical Pieces (Chiefly from ‘The Rossetti Manuscript’ circa 1793–1810)
Gnomic Verses |
| | Great things are done when men and mountains meet |
| | To God |
| | They said this mystery never shall cease |
| | An Answer to the Parson |
| | Lacedaemonian Instruction |
| | Nail his neck to the cross: nail it with a nail |
| | Love to faults is always blind |
| | There souls of men are bought and sold |
| | Soft Snow |
| | Abstinence sows sand all over |
| | Merlin’s Prophecy |
| | If you trap the moment before it’s ripe |
| | An Old Maid early ere I knew |
| | The sword sung on the barren heath |
| | O lapwing! thou fliest around the heath |
| | Terror in the house does roar |
| | Several Questions Answered |
| | If I e’er grow to man’s estate |
| | Since all the riches of this world |
| | Riches |
| | The Angel that presided o’er my birth |
| | Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven |
| | Do what you will this life’s a fiction |
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| On Art and Artists |
| | Advice of the Popes who succeeded the Age of Raphael |
| | On the great encouragement given by English nobility and gentry to Correggio, Rubens, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Catalani, Du Crow, and Dilbury Doodle |
| | I askèd my dear friend Orator Prig |
| | O dear Mother Outline! of wisdom most sage |
| | [On the Foundation of the Royal Academy] |
| | These are the idiots’ chiefest arts |
| | The cripple every step drudges and labours |
| | You say their pictures well painted be |
| | When you look at a picture, you always can see |
| | The Washerwoman’s Song |
| | English Encouragement of Art: Cromek’s opinions put into rhyme |
| | When I see a Rubens, Rembrandt, Correggio |
| | Give pensions to the learned pig |
| | [On Sir Joshua Reynolds’ disappointment at his first impressions of Raphael] |
| | Sir Joshua praisèd Rubens with a smile |
| | Sir Joshua praises Michael Angelo |
| | Can there be anything more mean |
| | To the Royal Academy |
| | Florentine Ingratitude |
| | No real style of colouring ever appears |
| | When Sir Joshua Reynolds died |
| | A Pitiful Case |
| | [On Sir Joshua Reynolds] |
| | I, Rubens, am a statesman and a saint |
| | [On the school of Rubens] |
| | To English Connoisseurs |
| | A Pretty Epigram for the encouragement of those who have paid great sums in the Venetian and Flemish ooze |
| | Raphael, sublime, majestic, graceful, wise |
| | On the Venetian Painter |
| | A pair of stays to mend the shape |
| | Venetian! all thy colouring is no more |
| | To Venetian Artists |
| | All pictures that ’s painted with sense and with thought |
| | Call that the public voice which is their error! |
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| On Friends and Foes |
| | I am no Homer’s hero you all know |
| | Anger and wrath my bosom rends |
| | If you play a game of chance, know, before you begin |
| | [Of Hayley’s birth]: Of H——’s birth this was the happy lot |
| | [On Hayley]: To forgive enemies H—— does pretend |
| | To H[ayley]: Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache |
| | On H[ayle]y’s Friendship: When H——y finds out what you cannot do |
| | On H[ayley] the Pickthank: I write the rascal thanks, till he and I |
| | My title as a genius thus is prov’d |
| | To F[laxman]: You call me mad, ’tis folly to do so |
| | To F[laxman]: I mock thee not, though I by thee am mockèd |
| | To Nancy F[laxman]: How can I help thy husband’s copying me? |
| | To F[laxman] and S[tothard]: I found them blind: I taught them how to see |
| | To S[tothar]d: You all your youth observ’d the golden rule |
| | Cromek speaks: I always take my judgement from a fool |
| | On S[tothard]: You say reserve and modesty he has |
| | [On Stothard]: S——, in childhood, on the nursery floor |
| | Mr. Stothard to Mr. Cromek: For Fortune’s favours you your riches bring |
| | Mr. Cromek to Mr. Stothard: Fortune favours the brave, old proverbs say |
| | [On Cromek]: Cr—— loves artists as he loves his meat |
| | [On Cromek]: A petty sneaking knave I knew |
| | [On P——]: P—— lovèd me not as he lov’d his friends |
| | [On William Haines]: The Sussex men are noted fools |
| | [On Fuseli]: The only man that e’er I knew |
| | [To Hunt]: ‘Madman’ I have been call’d |
| | To H[unt]: You think Fuseli is not a great painter |
| | [On certain Mystics]: Cosway, Frazer, and Baldwin of Egypt’s lake |
| | And his legs carried it like a long fork |
| | For this is being a friend just in the nick |
| | Was I angry with Hayley who us’d me so ill |
| | Having given great offence by writing in prose |
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| Miscellaneous Epigrams |
| | His whole life is an epigram, smart, smooth, and neatly penn’d |
| | He has observ’d the golden rule |
| | And in melodious accents I |
| | Some people admire the work of a fool |
| | He’s a blockhead who wants a proof of what he can’t perceive |
| | Great men and fools do often me inspire |
| | Some men, created for destruction, come |
| | An Epitaph: Come knock your heads against this stone |
| | Another: I was buried near this dyke |
| | Another: Here lies John Trot, the friend of all mankind |
| | When France got free, Europe, ’twixt fools and knaves |
| | On the virginity of the Virgin Mary and Johanna Southcott |
| | Imitation of Pope: a compliment to the Ladies |
| | When a man has married a wife, he finds out whether |
| | To Chloe’s breast young Cupid slyly stole |
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| Tiriel |
| The Book of Thel |
| The Marriage of Heaven and Hell |
| The French Revolution |
| A Song of Liberty |
| Visions of the Daughters of Albion |
| America: A Prophecy |
| Europe: A Prophecy |
| The [First] Book of Urizen |
| The Song of Los: Africa |
| The Song of Los: Asia |
| The Book of Los |
| The Book of Ahania |
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| Selections from ‘The Four Zoas’ |
| | [Introduction to Night the First] |
| | [The Wanderer] |
| | [A Vision of Eternity] |
| | [The Song sung at the Feast of Los and Enitharmon] |
| | [The Song of Enitharmon over Los] |
| | [The Wail of Enion] |
| | [Winter] |
| | [The Woes of Urizen in the Dens of Urthona] |
| | [Los in his Wrath] |
| | [The War-Song of Orc] |
| | [Vala’s Going Forth] |
| | [Urizen’s Words of Wisdom] |
| | [The Shade of Enitharmon] |
| | [The Serpent Orc] |
| | [The Last Judgement] |
| | [The Lament of Albion] |
| | [Accuser and Accused] |
| | [The Tillage of Urizen] |
| | [Song of the Sinless Soul] |
| | [Vala in Lower Paradise] |
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| Selections from ‘Milton’ (Engraved 1804–1809) |
| | Preface |
| | [The Invocation] |
| | [The Mills of Satan] |
| | [The Sin of Leutha] |
| | [Milton’s Journey to Eternal Death] |
| | [The Nature of Infinity] |
| | [The Sea of Time and Space] |
| | [The Mundane Shell] |
| | [A River in Eden] |
| | [Los] |
| | [Swedenborg] |
| | [Whitefield and Wesley] |
| | [The Forge of Los] |
| | [The Wine-Press of Los] |
| | [The Building of Time] |
| | [The Heavens and the Earth] |
| | [The Birds and the Flowers] |
| | [Love and Jealousy] |
| | [Reason and Imagination] |
| | [The Song of the Shadowy Female] |
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| Selections from ‘Jerusalem’ (Engraved 1804–? 1820) |
| | To the Public |
| | [Introduction] |
| | [The Reasoning Power] |
| | [The Words of Los] |
| | [The Builders of Golgonooza] |
| | [A Vision of Albion] |
| | [Punishment and Forgiveness] |
| | [The Lament of Albion] |
| | [Jerusalem] |
| | To the Jews |
| | [A Female Will] |
| | [The Universal Family] |
| | [Man’s Spectre] |
| | [Pretences] |
| | [Fourfold and Twofold Vision] |
| | [The Remembrance of Sin] |
| | To the Deists |
| | [Albion’s Spectre] |
| | [The Holiness of Minute Particulars] |
| | [A Vision of Joseph and Mary] |
| | [Tirzah] |
| | [The Warrior and the Daughter of Albion] |
| | [Men and States] |
| | To the Christians |
| | [A Vision of Jerusalem] |
| | [The Worship of God] |
| | [The Cry of Los] |
| | [Albion upon the Rock] |
| | [The Wrath of God] |
| | [The Divine Image] |
| | [The End of the Song of Jerusalem] |
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Verses from ‘For the Sexes’ and ‘The Gates of Paradise’ (circa 1810)
Verses from ‘The Gates of Paradise’ |
| | [Prologue] |
| | The Keys of the Gates |
| | [Epilogue]. To the Accuser who is The God of this World |
| | The Ghost of Abel |
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| Appendix to the Prophetic Books |
| | There is No Natural Religion |
| | All Religions are One |
| | [From Blake’s Engraving of the Laocoon] |
| | On Homer’s Poetry |
| | On Virgil |
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| From Blake’s ‘Descriptive Catalogue’ (1809) |
| | Sir Geffrey Chaucer and the Nine and twenty Pilgrims on their journey to Canterbury |
