greykit.poetry — #1800s

• 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
• 1807 [william-wordsworth] Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803
  Poems, in Two Volumes

  Standing on Westminster Bridge at dawn, Wordsworth finds London more beautiful than any natural scene — the city lying open to sky and fields in smokeless morning calm.

  #sonnet#city#morning#beauty#1800s
• 1807 [william-wordsworth] I wandered lonely as a Cloud
  Poems, in Two Volumes

  A solitary walk past a host of daffodils on a lake shore becomes, in memory, a source of joy that refreshes the poet on his couch in vacant or pensive mood.

  #lyric#nature#memory#solitude#1800s
• 1807 [william-wordsworth] Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
  Poems, in Two Volumes

  Wordsworth's great ode on the fading of the visionary gleam — the sense, felt in childhood, of a celestial radiance on all things, and the poet's mature consolation in memory, sympathy, and "the soothing thoughts that spring / Out of human suffering.

  #ode#childhood#memory#immortality#Romantic#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
• 1802 [samuel-taylor-coleridge] Dejection: An Ode
  Sibylline Leaves

  Wrestling with creative paralysis and emotional deadness, Coleridge addresses an unnamed Lady, lamenting that joy must come from within the soul before it can be found in nature.

  #ode#meditation#grief#nature#1800s