The Complete Poems
Introduction (SE) 117
Introduction (SI) 104
Jerusalem 635
King Edward the Third 39
Lacedemonian Instruction 154
Laughing Song 109
London (NPF) 143
London (SE) 128
Long John Brown & Little Mary Bell 510
Mad Song 29
Mary 503
Merlins Prophecy 151
Milton 513
Morning 493
Motto to the Songs of Innocence & of Experience 157
Mr Cromek to Mr Stothard 614
[Mr Cromek to] Mr Stothard to Mr Cromek 614
My Pretty Rose Tree 126
Night 112
Nurses Song (SE) 123
Nurse’s Song (SI) 114
On Anothers Sorrow 116
[To] On F[laxman] & S[tothard] 617
On H[ayley] the Pick Thank 622
On H[ayle]ys Friendship 617
On S[tothard] 618
On the Great Encouragement given by English Nobility & Gentry to Correggio Rubens Rembrandt Reynolds Gainsborough Catalani Ducrowe & Dilbury Doodle 621
On the Venetian Painter 633
On the Virginity of the Virgin Mary & Johanna Southcott 489
Prologue, intended for a dramatic piece of King Edward the Fourth 59
Prologue to King John 59
Riches 154
Several Questions Answerd 158
Soft Snow 149
Song (Fresh from the dewy hill) 30
Song (How sweet I roam’d) 26
Song (I love the jocund dance) 28
Song (Love and harmony combine) 27
Song (Memory, hither come) 29
Song (My silks and fine array) 27
Song (When early morn walks forth) 30
Song 1st by a Shepherd 61
Song 2nd by a Young Shepherd 61
Song 3rd by an Old Shepherd 62
Songs from ‘An Island in the Moon’ 63
Spring 113
[Thames] 139
[The Angel] (NPF) 155
The Angel (SE) 124
The Birds 490
The Blossom 107
The Book of Ahania 259
The Book of Los 267
The Book of Thel 78
The [First] Book of Urizen 242
The [visions] Caverns of the Grave Ive seen (NESV) 630
The Chimney Sweeper (NPF) 151
The Chimney Sweeper (SE) 123
The Chimney Sweeper (SI) 108
The Clod & the Pebble 118
The Crystal Cabinet 504
The Divine Image 111
The Ecchoing Green 105
The Everlasting Gospel 848
[The Marriage Ring] The Fairy 152
The Fly 124
The French Revolution 162
The Garden of Love 127
The Ghost of Abel 864
The Golden Net 498
The Grey Monk 505
The Human Abstract 128
The Kid 153
The Lamb 106
The Land of Dreams 502
The Lilly 126
The Little Black Boy 106
The Little Boy Found 109
The Little Boy lost 109
The Little Girl Found 121
The Little Girl Lost 119
The Little [A Pretty] Vagabond (NPF) 153
The Little Vagabond (SE) 127
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 180
The Mental Traveller 499
The Question Answerd 154
The School Boy 132
The Shepherd 105
The Sick Rose (NPF) 149
The Sick Rose (SE) 123
The Smile 498
The Song of Los 237
The Tyger (NPF: First Version) 145
The Tyger (NPF: Second Version) 146
The Tyger (SE) 125
The Voice of the Ancient Bard 133
The Washer Womans Song 623
The Wild Flowers Song 148
Thel’s Motto 78
There is No Natural Religion 75
Tiriel 85
To Autumn 22
To English Connoisseurs 619
To F[laxman] (I mock thee not) 612
To F[laxman] (You call me Mad) 617
To God 628
To H[ayley] 618
To H[unt] 612
To John Flaxman, 12 September 1800 481
To Morning 24
To Mrs Ann Flaxman 479
To Mrs Butts 484
To Mrs Flaxman, 14 September 1800 482
To My Mirtle 150
To Nancy F[laxman] 612
To Nobodaddy 144
To Spring 21
To S[tothar]d 614
To Summer 21
To the Christians 797
To the Deists 737
To the Evening Star 23
To the Jews 685
To the Muses 31
To the Queen 608
To the Royal Academy 616
To Thomas Butts, 2 October 1800 482
To Thomas Butts, 22 November 1802 485
To Thomas Butts, 16 August 1803 487
To Tirzah 132
To Venetian Artists 626
To Winter 23
Vala, or the Four Zoas 273
Verse from the Advertisement to Blake’s Exhibition of Paintings, 1809 633
Visions of the Daughters of Albion 196
William Bond 511
[Epitaph for] William Cowper Esqre 624
Index of First Lines
A crowned king 74
A fairy [leapt] skipd upon my knee 479
A flower was offerd to me (NPF) 134
A flower was offerd to me (SE: My Pretty Rose Tree) 126
A little black thing among the snow (NPF: The Chimney Sweeper) 151
A little black thing among the snow (SE: The Chimney Sweeper) 123
A little Flower grew in a lonely Vale 479
A Pair of Stays to mend the Shape 633
A Petty sneaking Knave I knew 613
A strange Erratum in all the Editions 616
A Woman Scaly & a Man all Hairy 497
Abstinence sows sand all over 153
Adam stood in the garden of Eden 238
Ah said Sipsop, I only wish Jack [Hunter] Tearguts had 63
Ah Sun-flower! weary of time 126
All Pictures thats Panted with Sense & with Thought 622
All the night in woe 121
An old maid early eer I knew 158
And Aged Tiriel. stood before the Gates of his beautiful palace 85
And did those feet in ancient time 514
And his legs carried it like a long fork 609
And in Melodious Accents I 634
Anger & Wrath my bosom rends 611
Are not the joys of morning sweeter 145
Around the Springs of Gray my wild root weaves 479
As I walkd forth one may morning 67
As I wanderd the forest 148
As the Ignorant Savage will sell his own Wife 621
Awake awake my little Boy 502
Beneath the white thorn lovely May 489
Call that the Public Voice which is their Error 634
Can I see anothers woe 116
Can there be any thing more mean 612
Children of the future Age 131
Come hither my boy tell me what thou seest there 154
Come hither my sparrows 152
Come, Kings, and listen to my song 32
Come knock your heads against this stone 619
Cosway Frazer & Baldwin of Egypts Lake 618
Cr[omek] loves artists as he loves his Meat 613
Daughters of Beulah! Muses who inspire the Poets Song 514
Dear Mother Dear Mother the church is cold (NPF: The Little [A Pretty] Vagabond) 153
Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold (SE: The Little Vagabond) 127
Degrade first the Arts if you’d Mankind degrade 632
Did Jesus teach do
ubt or did he 854
Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? 78
[This world] Each Man is in [the] His Spectres power 494
Earth raisd up her head (NPF: [The] Earths Answer) 142
Earth rais’d up her head (SE: Earth’s Answer) 118
Eno aged Mother 267
Enslav’d, the Daughters of Albion weep: a trembling lamentation 196
Father, father, where are you going 109
Fayette beheld the King & Queen 160
[Fayette beside King Lewis stood…] 160
Five windows light the cavern’d Man; thro’ one he breathes the air 225
For Fortunes favours you your riches bring 614
Fortune favours the Brave old Proverbs say 614
Fresh from the dewy hill, the merry year 30
Fuzon, on a chariot iron-wing’d 259
Give pensions to the Learned Pig 621
Golden Apollo, that thro’ heaven wide 35
Great Men & Fools do often me Inspire 628
Great things are done when Men & Mountains meet 624
Grown old in Love from Seven till Seven times Seven 497
Hail Matrimony made of Love 68
Having given great offence by writing in Prose 627
He has observd the Golden Rule 613
He is a Cock [wont] would 613
He makes the Lame to walk we all agree 633
He who binds to himself [to] a joy 153
He who binds to himself a joy (Several Questions Answerd) 158
Hear the voice of the Bard! 117
Hear then the pride & knowledge of a Sailor 65
Her whole Life is an Epigram smack smooth & neatly pend 157
Here lies John Trot the Friend of all mankind 619
Hes a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Cant Percieve 613
[How came pride in Man…] 147
How can I help thy Husbands copying Me 612
How sweet I roam’d from field to field 26
How sweet is the Shepherds sweet lot 105
I always take my judgment from a Fool 622
I am no Homers Hero you all know 614
I am sure This Jesus will not do 860
I askd my Dear Friend Orator Prigg 626
I asked a thief [if he’d] to steal me a peach 136
I bless thee, O Father of Heaven & Earth, that even I saw Flaxman’s face 481
I die I die the Mother said 505
I dreamt a dream what can it mean (NPF: [The Angel]) 155
I Dreamt a Dream! what can it mean? (SE: The Angel) 124
I feard the [roughness] fury of my wind 139
I found them blind, I taught them how to see (MVE) 634
I found [thee] them blind I taught [thee] how to see (NESV: [To] On F[Iaxman] & S[tothard] 617
I [have givn] give you the end of a golden string 624
I have no name 115
I heard an Angel singing 136
I laid me down upon a bank 135
I love the jocund dance 28
I love to rise in a summer morn 132
I loved Theotormon 196
I mock thee not tho I by thee am Mocked 612
I rose up at the dawn of day 629
I Rubens am a Statesman & a Saint 619
I saw a chapel all of gold 136
I saw a Monk of [Constantine] Charlemaine 491
I say this evening [we’d] we’ll all get drunk. I say dash 66
I told my love I told my love 134
I traveld thro’ a Land of Men 499
I walked abroad in a snowy day 149
I wander thro’ each charter’d street 128
I wander thro each dirty street 143
I was angry with my friend (NPF: Christian Forbearance) 138
I was angry with my friend (SE: A Poison Tree) 129
I was buried near this Dike 619
I washd them out & washd them in 623
I went to the garden of love (NPF) 135
I went to the Garden of Love (SE: The Garden of Love) 127
I will sing you a song of Los. the Eternal Prophet 237
I will tell you what Joseph of Arimathea 625
I wonder whether the Girls are mad 511
I write the Rascal Thanks till he & I 622
If I eer Grow to Mans Estate 621
If it is True What the Prophets write 616
If Men will act like a maid smiling over a Churn 628
If Moral Virtue was Christianity 839
If you have formd a Circle to go into 628
If you mean to Please Every body you will 622
If you play a Game of Chance know before you begin 624
If you [catch] trap the moment before its ripe 153
In a wife I would desire 153
In futurity 119
In the last Battle that Arthur fought, the most Beautiful was one 633
In the Moon as Phebus stood over his oriental Gardening 63
Is this a holy thing to see (NPF: Holy Thursday) 155
Is this a holy thing to see (SE: Holy Thursday) 119
Justice hath heav’d a sword to plunge in Albion’s breast 59
Leave O leave [me] to my sorrows 73
Let the brothels of Paris be opened 159
Little Fly 124
Little fly 156
Little Lamb who made thee 106
[Pretty] Little Mary Bell had a Fairy in a Nut 510
Lo the Bat with Leathern wing 66
[Look Flaxman & Stothard do] old acquaintance well renew 611
Love and harmony combine 27
Love seeketh not itself to please (NPF) 135
Love seeketh not Itself to please (SE: The Clod & the Pebble) 118
Love to faults is always blind 148
Madman I have been calld Fool they call thee 612
Mans perceptions are not bounded 75
Me Time has Crook’d. no good Workman 628
Memory, hither come 29
Merry Merry Sparrow 107
Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau 494
Mutual forgiveness of each Vice 861
My mother bore me in the southern wild 106
My mother groand my father wept (NPF: Infant Sorrow) 139
My mother groand! my father wept (SE: Infant Sorrow) 129
My silks and fine array 27
My Spectre around me night & day 494
My title as an [Artist] Genius thus is provd 619
Nail his neck to the Cross nail it with a nail 629
Nature & Art in this together Suit 620
Naught loves another as itself (NPF) 150
[Never (seek) pain to tell thy love…] 134
No real Style of Colouring ever appears 609
Nought loves another as itself (SE: A Little Boy Lost) 130
[when] Now Art has lost its mental Charms 629
O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained 22
O dear Mother outline [be not in a Rage] of knowledge most sage 626
O For a voice like thunder, and a tongue 59
O holy virgin! clad in purest white 24
O how sick & weary I 142
O I say you Joe 73
O lapwing thou fliest around the heath 141
O Reader behold the Philosophers Grave 633
O Rose thou art sick (NPF: The Sick Rose) 149
O Rose thou art sick (SE: The Sick Rose) 123
O thou, to whose fury the nations are 39
O thou, who passest thro’ our vallies in 21
O thou, with dewy locks, who lookest down 21
O why was I born with a different face 487
O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors 23
Of H[ayley]s birth this was the happy lot 612
Of the primeval Priests assum’d power 242
Once a dream did weave a shade 115
Phebe drest like beauties Queen 65
P[hillips] loved me, not as he lovd his Friends 617
Piping down the valleys wild 104
[Mercy] Pity could be no mor
e 147
Pity would be no more 128
Prepare, prepare, the iron helm of war 60
Rafael Sublime Majestic Graceful Wise 620
Reader! [lover] of books! [lover] of heaven 636
Remove away that blackning church 149, 159
Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air 180
[Rubens had been a Statesman or a Saint] 619
Seeing this False Christ In fury & Passion 854
Silent Silent Night 141
Since all the Riches of this World 629
Sir Jo[s]hua praised Rubens with a Smile 613
Sir Joshua Praises Michael Angelo 612
Sir Joshua sent his own Portrait to 615
Sleep Sleep; in thy sleep 137
Soft deceit & idleness 156
Some look. to see the sweet Outlines 632
Some people admire the work of a Fool 628
Sound the Flute! 113
S[tothard] in Childhood on the Nursery floor 612
Sweet dreams form a shade 110
Sweet Mary the first time she ever was there 503
Swelld limbs with no outline that you can descry 620
Terror in the house does roar 494
That God is colouring Newton does shew 626
The Angel that presided oer my birth 614
The Argument. As the true method of knowledge 77
The Argument. Man has no notion of moral fitness 75
The bell struck one, and shook the silent tower 24
The [visions] Caverns of the Grave Ive seen 630
The [weal] countless gold of a merry heart 154
The Cripple every step Drudges & labours 621
The Cunning sures & the Aim at yours 622
The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round their sunny flocks 78
The dead brood over Europe, the cloud and vision descends over chearful France 162
The Door of Death is made of Gold 608
The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule 623
The Eternal Female groand! 194
‘The fox, the owl, the spider, and the mole…’ 634
The Good are attracted by Mens perceptions 157
The harvest shall flourish in wintry weather 151
The Hebrew Nation did not write it 497
The Kings of Asia heard 239
The little boy lost in the lonely fen 109
The look of love alarms 156
The Maiden caught me in the Wild 504
The [rose puts envious] [lustful] modest rose puts forth a thorn (NPF) 144
The modest Rose puts forth a thorn (SE: The Lilly) 126
The only Man that eer I knew 624
The shadowy daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc 208
The Song of the Aged Mother which shook the heavens with wrath 274
The [day] Sun arises in the East 152
The sun descending in the west 112
The Sun does arise 105