greykit.poetry — William Blake
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1863
[william-blake]
Auguries of Innocence
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.
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1804
[william-blake]
And did those feet in ancient time
Blake's visionary preface-poem to Milton — a defiant call to rebuild Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land through mental fight.
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1794
[william-blake]
The Tyger
A series of unanswerable questions addressed to the tiger — what immortal daring could have created so fearful and beautiful a creature?
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1789
[william-blake]
The Lamb
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.