“The moon like a flower
In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight,
Sits and smiles on the night.”
Night, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
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A Little Girl Lost, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
“The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”
William Blake Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 44
Source: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
“Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.”
William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 66
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.”
Great Things Are Done
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 41
A Poison Tree, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
“And throughout all eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.”
My Specter, st. 14
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1804)
William Blake Auguries of Innocence
Variant: To see a World in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 1
Public Address, Blake's Notebook c. 1810
1810s
“The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 12
Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 15, lines 6-9