William Blake Citations
William Blake: Citations en anglais
Song (How Sweet I Roamed), st. 1
1780s, Poetical Sketches (1783)
“A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a rage.”
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 5
Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses, pp. xvii–xcviii (c. 1798–1809)
1790s
The Sword Sung
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)
Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 5, lines 21-23 The Words of Blake
Infant Sorrow, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
1790s, Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)
“They have divided themselves by Wrath. they must be united by
Pity<…”
Source: Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 7, lines 57-58 The Words of Los to his Spectre
“Every Thing has its Vermin O Spectre of the Sleeping Dead!”
Frontiespiece, plate 1, line 11 (as it seen on the additional plate, Fitzwilliam Museum).
1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820)
“If you have formed a circle to go into,
Go into it yourself and see how you would do.”
To God
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)
Note to The Voice of the Devil
1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)
Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses, title page (c. 1798–1809)
1790s
“The iron hand crush'd the Tyrant's head
And became a Tyrant in his stead.”
Ibid, stanza 9
1810s, Miscellaneous poems and fragments from the Nonesuch edition
Grown Old in Love
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)
1810s, The Everlasting Gospel (c. 1818)
“Every Harlot was a Virgin once”
For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise: [Epilogue] To The Accuser who is The God of This World
1810s
“Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public RECORDS to be True.”
Annotations to An Apology for the Bible by R. Watson
1790s
“Why art thou silent and invisible,
Father of Jealousy?”
To Nobodaddy, st. 1
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)
Love to Faults
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)
The Little Black Boy, st. 4
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
