“For washed in life's river,
My bright mane forever
Shall shine like the gold
As Iguard o'er the fold.”
Night, st. 6
Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 3, plate 57
“They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin.”
1780s, Annotations to Lavater (1788)
The Ecchoing Green, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
Blake's Exhibition and Catalogue of 1809, A Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures: Number V. The Ancient Britons
1800s
“A dog starved at his master's gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.”
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 9
No. 4, What Is It
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792), Several Questions Answered
Introduction, st. 5
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 13, line 66 — plate 14, line 1
Prefatory Poem
1800s, Milton (c. 1809)
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 129
“The Old and New Testaments are the great code of art.”
Oldest source found: "The Harvard Advocate" (Vol. 102–103), p. 268
Attributed
“Pity must join together those whom wrath has torn in sunder”
Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 7, lines 62 The Words of Los to his Spectre
“The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caesar's laurel crown.”
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 97
Night, st. 5
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
Abstinence Sows Sand
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)
Book the First, 24:72
1800s, Milton (c. 1809)
The Human Abstract, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
Mock On, st. 1
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1804)