greykit.poetry — William Blake

• 1863 [william-blake] Auguries of Innocence
  The Pickering Manuscript

  Blake's great chain of auguries — 132 lines of compressed vision reading the infinite in the finite: a world in a grain of sand, a heaven in a wildflower, and the tyranny we inflict on the smallest creatures reverberating through all of human life.

  #aphorism#vision#nature#innocence#1800s
• 1804 [william-blake] And did those feet in ancient time
  Milton

  Blake's visionary preface-poem to Milton — a defiant call to rebuild Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land through mental fight.

  #lyric#spiritual#england#1800s
• 1794 [william-blake] The Tyger
  Songs of Innocence and of Experience

  A series of unanswerable questions addressed to the tiger — what immortal daring could have created so fearful and beautiful a creature?

  #lyric#nature#creation#1790s
• 1789 [william-blake] The Lamb
  Songs of Innocence and of Experience

  A child asks a lamb who made it, then answers the question himself — the same creator who became a little child and bore the name of lamb.

  #lyric#innocence#creation#1780s