I laid me down upon a Bank. Poems from the Rossetti MS.: Earlier Poems. William Blake. 1908. The Poetical Works

William Blake (1757–1827). The Poetical Works. 1908.

Poems from the Rossetti MS.: Earlier Poems

I laid me down upon a Bank


I LAID me down upon a bank,
Where Love lay sleeping;
I heard among the rushes dank
Weeping, weeping.

Then I went to the heath and the wild,	5
To the thistles and thorns of the waste;
And they told me how they were beguil’d,
Driven out, and compell’d to be chaste.