
The Clod and the Pebble, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
The Clod and the Pebble, st. 3
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
Source: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
The Clod and the Pebble, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
“Theologian: But what is to love?
Philosopher: To be delighted by the happiness of another.”
Theologus: Amare autem?
Philosophus: Felicitate alterius delectari.
Confessio philosophi (1673)
“We will kill in ourselves a world in order to build another, a higher one reaching to the heavens.”
For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Religion
Grown Old in Love
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)
“All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.”
Heaven and Hell #399
St. 9
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/
Context: All hatred driven hence,
The soul recovers radical innocence
And learns at last that it is self-delighting,
Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,
And that its own sweet will is Heaven’s will;
She can, though every face should scowl
And every windy quarter howl
Or every bellows burst, be happy still.
The Elements of True Piety (c. 1677), The Shorter Leibniz Texts (2006) http://books.google.com/books?id=oFoCY3xJ8nkC&dq edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 189