| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | The Angel | | By William Blake (1757–1827) |
| | | I DREAMT a Dream! what can it mean? | |
| And that I was a maiden Queen, | |
| Guarded by an Angel mild: | |
| Witless woe was ne’er beguil’d! | |
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| And I wept both night and day, | 5 |
| And he wip’d my tears away, | |
| And I wept both day and night, | |
| And hid from him my heart’s delight. | |
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| So he took his wings and fled; | |
| Then the morn blush’d rosy red; | 10 |
| I dried my tears, and arm’d my fears | |
| With ten thousand shields and spears. | |
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| Soon my Angel came again: | |
| I was arm’d, he came in vain; | |
| For the time of youth was fled, | 15 |
| And grey hairs were on my head. | | | | |
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