Скачать или смотреть English Poetry Lecture 13 English Poetry Romantic Poetry William Blake

English Poetry Lecture 13: English Poetry: Romantic Poetry: William Blake
Then READ the following quotes by Blake AND then Google Quotes by Blake and post a SHORT quote (not mentioned below) in the comments section below.

What is another poem you like by Blake? Why?


Blake in Quotes
1. Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion.
2. Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
3. Both read the Bible day and night,
But thou read black where I read white.
4. I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s.
5. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
6. The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that
7. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
8. What is now proved was once only imagined.
9. Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
10. 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.
11. When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. 12. Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
13. If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
14.Without contraries [there] is no progression.
15. I care not whether a man is good or evil;
all that I care Is whether he is a wise man or a fool.
Go! put off holiness,
And put on intellect.

The Sick Rose
BY WILLIAM BLAKE
O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

William Blake
William Blake

Nurse's Song
From Songs of Innocence
When voices of children are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
'Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down,
And the dews of night arise;
Come, come, leave off play, and let us away,
Till the morning appears in the skies.'

'No, no, let us play, for it is yet day,
And we cannot go to sleep;
Besides, in the sky the little birds fly,
And the hills are all covered with sheep.'
'Well, well, go and play till the light fades away,
And then go home to bed.'
The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laughed,
And all the hills echoed.

The Nurse’s song
I. Nurse's SongWhen the voices of children are heard on the green,
And whisperings are in the dale,
The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind,
My face turns green and pale.

Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down,
And the dews of night arise;
Your spring and your day are wasted in play,
And your winter and night in disguise.