William Blake Citations
William Blake: Citations en anglais
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
William Blake Night
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)
William Blake The Human Abstract
The Human Abstract, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
Mock On, st. 1
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1804)
“There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.”
Annotations to Swedenborg (1788)
1780s
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 107
The Letters Of William Blake https://archive.org/details/lettersofwilliam002199mbp (1956), p. 90 <br class="br">1790s
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Lines 8–9
William Blake The Little Black Boy
The Little Black Boy, st. 7
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
Introduction, st. 4
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
Song (My Silks and Fine Arrays), st. 1
1780s, Poetical Sketches (1783)
Annotations to An Apology for the Bible by R. Watson
1790s
The Angel That Presided
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)
Nurse's Song, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
Let the Brothels of Paris, st. 2
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)
A Vision of the Last Judgment
1810s
Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 26, lines 1-4
“Terror in the house does roar,
But Pity stands before the door.”
Terror in the House
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1804)
William Blake To the Muses
To the Muses, st. 4
1780s, Poetical Sketches (1783)
I Asked a Thief
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)
There Is No Natural Religion (1788)
1780s
“Every tear from every eye
Becomes a babe in eternity.”
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 67
“All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 13
“When a Man has Married a Wife
He finds out whether
Her Knees & elbows are only
glued together.”
Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1800–1803)
1800s
