Never seek to tell thy Love
Never seek to tell thy love, / Love that never told can be;
William Blake
50 poems
ON ANOTHER'S SORROW
Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow too?
THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
When my mother died I was very young, / And my father sold me while yet my tongue
THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more / If we did not make somebody poor,
THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the southern wild, / And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
The Birds
He. Where thou dwellest, in what grove, / Tell me Fair One, tell me Love;
The Golden Net
Three Virgins at the break of day: / `Whither, young man, whither away
The Land of Dreams
Awake, awake, my little boy! / Thou wast thy mother's only joy;
The Smile
There is a smile of love, / And there is a smile of deceit,
Urizen's Words of Wisdom
And Urizen read in his Book of Brass in sounding tones: -- / `Listen, O Daughters, to my voice! listen to the words of wisdom!