Category Archives: Blake

Christianity and Modernity: Reflections on Blake’s “The Human Abstract”

for Kristine Lowe, because she asked The Human Abstract William Blake Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody Poor; And Mercy no more could be If all were as happy as we. And mutual fear brings peace, Till the selfish loves increase: Then Cruelty knits a snare, And spreads his baits

On Blake’s "The Little Boy Lost" and "The Little Boy Found"

The Little Boy Lost William Blake “Father! father! where are you going? O do not walk so fast. Speak, father, speak to your little boy, Or else I shall be lost.” The night was dark, no father was there; The child was wet with dew; The mire was deep, & the child did weep, And

On Blake’s "The Tyger"

The Tyger William Blake Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art,

On Blake’s “A Divine Image”

Thank you to Josh for bringing this poem to my attention. A Divine Image William Blake Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The

Democracy’s Mysticism: Thoughts on "All Religions are One," by Blake

All Religions are One William Blake The Voice of one crying in the Wilderness The Argument. As the true method of knowledge is experiment, the true faculty of knowing must be the faculty which experiences. This faculty I treat of. Principle I. That the Poetic Genius is the true Man, and that the body or