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He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men. (William Blake)
Abstinence sows sand all over; The ruddy limbs flaming hair, But Desire Gratified; Plants fruits of life beauty there. View quote
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Little Fly, Thy summers play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am I not like thee Or art not thou A man like Me For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. View quote
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There is a smile of love,And there is a smile of deceit,And there is a smile of smilesIn which these two smiles meet. View quote
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Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increased For light cloth seize my brain With frantic pain. View quote
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The look of love alarms Because tis filled with fire But the look of soft deceit Shall sin the lovers hire. View quote
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Everything that is possible to be believed is an image of the truth. View quote
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Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire. View quote
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Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming in the joys of night Sleep, sleep in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep. View quote
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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion the horse, how he shall take his prey. View quote
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The Moon like a flower In heaven's high bower, With silent delight, Sits and smiles on the night. (William Blake)
The Angel that presided oer my birth Said Little creature, formd of joy and mirth, Go, love without the help of anything on earth. View quote
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God appears, and God is Light,To those poor souls who dwell in Night,But does a human form displayTo those who dwell in realms of day. View quote
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A Robin Redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. View quote
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My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave Such end true lovers have. View quote
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The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold And there Jerusalem's pillars stood. View quote
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If the sun and moon should doubt they'd immediately go out. View quote
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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown. View quote
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Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals is utterly useless to any one a blight never does good to a tree, if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight. View quote
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He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty. View quote
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There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil it is persecution to others or selfishness. (William Blake)
And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear. View quote
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This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a lie when you see with, not through, the eye. View quote
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Children of the future AgeReading this indignant page,Know that in a former timeLove sweet Love was thought a crime. View quote
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Never seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears Ah, she doth depart. Soon as she was gone from me A traveler came by Silently, invisibly He took her with a sigh. View quote
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