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Daniel Amos – William Blake
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An ode to the titular English poet.
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A Wilhelm Scream – William Blake Overdrive
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I will make myself / A mile from the racetrack / Drag my losses home / It kills me not to go back / And we float with parasites / All our lives / There's me with the geriatrics at
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Frank Turner – I Believed You, William Blake
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[Verse 1] / Have you seen my husband? / You'd know him, if you had / He's known around old London Town / Most people think he's mad / My husband he talks with angels / And with
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Neil Young – Time for You to Leave, William Blake...
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- Well... / - I've prepared for you a canoe to sit in this / It's time for you to leave now, William Blake.. / Time for you to go back to your kingdom / - There' s so cloudly
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WALK THE MOON – William Blake
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Oooooooh / Oooooooh Ohh / Oooooooh / Oooooooh Ohh / I walk through the fog / And kiss her through the fence / Oh, how strange and difficult / Feigning innocence is / But show me
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William Blake – London
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“London”, was first published in 1794 and was one of the series of poems in Songs of Experience. These short poems explore the harsh realities of late 18th and early 19th Century
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William Blake – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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This is Blake’s greatest statement of the Perennial Philosophy. Though, as poet and scholar Kathleen Raine says, Marriage is largely a restatement of the principles of alchemy (
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William Blake – The Echoing Green
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From Blake’s Songs of Innocence. published in 1794, this was one of the series of poems which present an idealised world, in contrast to the harsh realities of late 18th and early
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William Blake – And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time
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“And did those feet in ancient time” is a short poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton: a Poem, which was printed in 1808. Today, the poem is best known as the
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William Blake – I Rose Up at the Dawn of Day
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I rose up at the dawn of day-- / `Get thee away! get thee away! / Pray'st thou for riches? Away! away! / This is the Throne of Mammon grey.' / Said I: This, sure, is very odd; / I
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Alan Menken (Ft. James Earl Jones) – A Poem by William Blake
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[A VOICE NOT UNLIKE GOD'S, spoken] / A poem, by William Blake. / The Angel that presided over my birth / Said, “Little creature, born of Joy and Mirth, / Go love / Go love
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William Blake – The Little Black Boy (Songs of Innocence)
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From Blake’s Songs of Innocence, published in 1794, this was one of the series of poems which present an idealised world, in contrast to the harsh realities of late 18th and early
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William Blake – A Dream
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From Blake’s Songs of Innocence, published in 1794, this was one of the series of poems which present an idealised world, in contrast to the harsh realities of late 18th and early
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William Blake – Spring
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From Blake’s Songs of Innocence. published in 1794, this was one of the series of poems which present an idealised world, in contrast to the harsh realities of late 18th and early
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William Blake – The Angel
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This little poem tells a story of portection and fear and how the speaker faces the world and learns independence. Guardian angles have a long tradition in many cultures, not
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William Blake – Infant Joy
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From Blake’s Songs of Innocence, published in 1794, this was one of the series of poems which present an idealised world, in contrast to the harsh realities of late 18th and early
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William Blake – The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Innocence)
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The earlier version of “The Chimney Sweeper”, from 1789’s Songs of Innocence, this poem would be mirrored by “The Chimney Sweeper” from Songs of Experience. It is one of the
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William Blake – A Cradle Song
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From Blake’s Songs of Innocence. published in 1794, this was one of the series of poems which present an idealised world, in contrast to the harsh realities of late 18th and early
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William Blake – The Divine Image (Songs of Innocence)
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From Blake’s Songs of Innocence, published in 1794, this was one of the series of poems which present an idealised world, in contrast to the harsh realities of late 18th and early
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William Blake – Broken Love
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MY Spectre around me night and day / Like a wild beast guards my way; / My Emanation far within / Weeps incessantly for my sin. / ‘A fathomless and boundless deep, / There we
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William Blake – To Spring
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A quintessential Romantic poem that praises the coming of Spring to end the dreary English winter.
The poem was the opening poem to Blake’s first published collection Poetical
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William Blake – My Pretty Rose Tree
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From Blake’s Songs of Experience. published in 1794, this was one of the series of poems which explore the harsh realities of late 18th and early 19th Century life during the time
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William Blake – The Sick Rose
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From Blake’s Songs of Experience. published in the 1794, this was one of the series of poems which explore the harsh realities of late 18th and early 19th Century life during the
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Billy Bragg – Blake's Jerusalem
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And did those feet in ancient time / Walk upon England's mountains green? / And was the Holy Lamb of God / On England's pleasant pastures seen? / And did the Countenance Divine
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William Blake – On Anothers Sorrow
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From Blake’s Songs of Innocence, published in 1794, this was one of the series of poems which present an idealised world, in contrast to the harsh realities of late 18th and early
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William Blake – The Human Abstract
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From Songs of Experience, published 1794, this was one of the series of poems which explore the harsh realities of late 18th and early 19th Century life during the time of King
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William Blake – The Fly
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This poem was first published in 1794 and was one of the series of poems in Songs of Experience. These short poems explore the harsh realities of late 18th and early 19th Century
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William Blake – Infant Sorrow
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This poem was first published in 1794 and was one of the series of poems in Songs of Experience. These short poems explore the harsh realities of late 18th and early 19th Century
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William Blake – The Garden of Love
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‘The Garden of Love’ was first published in 1794 and was one of the series of poems in William Blake’s collection, Songs of Experience. These short poems explore the harsh
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William Blake – The Crystal Cabinet
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The Maiden caught me in the wild / Where I was dancing merrily / She put me into her Cabinet / And lock'd me up with a golden key / This cabinet is form'd of gold / And pearl and
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William Blake – Nurse's Song (Songs of Innocence)
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From Blake’s Songs of Innocence. published in 1794, this was one of the series of poems which present an idealised world, in contrast to the harsh realities of late 18th and early
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William Blake – The Lamb
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From Blake’s Songs of Innocence. published in 1794, this was one of the series of poems which present an idealised world, in contrast to the harsh realities of late 18th and early
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William Black (Ft. Park Avenue) – Letting Go (Fallsteeze Remix)
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[Verse 1] / Spending the night alone for the first time in a while / I look at the sky and I think of you (I think of you) / 'Cause somehow exploding stars and miles of empty space
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William Blake – Night
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From Blake’s Songs of Innocence. published in 1794, this was one of the series of poems which present an idealised world, in contrast to the harsh realities of late 18th and early
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William Blake – The Schoolboy
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This poem was first published in 1794 and was one of the series of poems in Songs of Experience. These short poems explore the harsh realities of late 18th and early 19th Century
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William Blake – A Poison Tree
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‘A Poison Tree’, was first published in 1794 and was one of the series of poems in Songs of Experience. These short poems explore the harsh realities of late 18th and early 19th
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William Blake – The Tyger
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From Blake’s Songs of Experience. published in 1794, this was one of the series of poems which explore the harsh realities of late 18th and early 19th Century life during the time
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William Blake – The Little Vagabond
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From Songs of Experience, published 1794, this was one of the series of poems which explore the harsh realities of late 18th and early 19th Century life during the time of King
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William Blake – Auguries of Innocence
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Auguries of Innocence was not published until 1863; thirty-six years after Blake died. An augury is a sign, a prediction of something to come. In the ancient world an ‘augur’ was a
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William Blake – Earth's Answer
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Earth raised up her head / From the darkness dread and drear, / Her light fled, / Stony, dread, / And her locks covered with grey despair. / 'Prisoned on watery shore, / Starry
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William Blake – Holy Thursday (Songs of Innocence)
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This poem was first published in 1794 and was one of the series of poems in Songs of Innocence. These short poems explore life in the late 18th and early 19th Century life during
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