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Earth's Answer
2023-12-06Earth rais'd up her head From the darkness dread and drear. Her light fled, Stony dread! And her locks cover'd with grey despair. `Prison'...
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Tirzah
2023-12-06`O thou poor Human Form!' said she. `O thou poor child of woe! Why wilt thou wander away from Tirzah, why me compel to bind thee? If thou dost go ...
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The Little Boy Found
2023-12-06The little boy lost in the lonely fen, Led by the wand'ring light, Began to cry; but God, ever nigh, Appear'd like his father, in white. He ki...
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The Little Boy Lost
2023-12-06`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...
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The Holiness of Minute Particulars
2023-12-06And many conversèd on these things as they labour'd at the furrow, Saying `It is better to prevent misery than to release from misery; It i...
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On Another's Sorrow
2023-12-06Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not ...
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Albion's Spectre
2023-12-06But the Spectre, like a hoar-frost and a mildew, rose over Albion, Saying: `I am God, O Sons of Men! I am your Rational Power! Am I not Bacon and Newt...
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The Remembrance of Sin
2023-12-06Come, O thou Lamb of God, and take away the remembrance of Sin! To sin, and to hide the Sin in sweet deceit, is lovely: To sin in the open face of day...
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Fourfold and Twofold Vision
2023-12-06The Visions of Eternity, by reason of narrowèd perceptions, Are become weak Visions of Time and Space, fix'd into furrows of Death; Till de...
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The Divine Image
2023-12-06To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray in their distress; And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Lov...