Earth 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'...
`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 ...
The 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...
`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...
And 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...
Can 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 ...
But 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...
Come, 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...
The Visions of Eternity, by reason of narrowèd perceptions, Are become weak Visions of Time and Space, fix'd into furrows of Death; Till de...
To 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...