Life of William Blake, "Pictor ignotus". Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist, William James Linton, William Blake
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SELECTIONS
LIFE
OF
WILLIAM BLAKE.
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LIFE
OF
WILLIAM BLAKE,
"PICTOR IGNOTUS"
WITH SELECTIONS FROM HIS POEMS AND OTHER WRITINGS
BY THE LATE
OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW;
AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF WILLIAM ETTY, R.A."
ILLUSTRATED FROM BLAKE'S OWN WORKS,
IN FACSIMILÉ BY W. J. LINTON,
AND IN PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY;
WITH A FEW OF BLAKE'S ORIGINAL PLATES.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL II.
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1863.
LONDON:
R CLAY, SON, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS,
BREAD STREET HILL.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
PART II. SELECTIONS.
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Introductory Note | 3 |
Song. My silks and fine array | 4 |
Song. Love and harmony combine | 5 |
Song. I love the jocund dance | 6 |
Mad Song. The wild winds weep | 7 |
Song. How.sweet I roamed from field to field | 8 |
Song. Memory, hither come | 9 |
To the Muses. Whether on Ida's shady brow | 10 |
To the Evening Star. Thou fair-hair'd angel of the Evening | 11 |
To Spring. O thou, with dewy locks, who lookest down | 12 |
To Summer. O thou who passest thro' our valleys in | 13 |
Blind-Man's Buff. When silver snow decks Susan's clothes | 14 |
King Edward the Third (Selections from) | 16 |
SONGS OF INNOCENCE.
Introductory Note | 25 |
Introduction. Piping down the valleys wild | 26 |
The Shepherd. How sweet is the shepherd's sweet lot | 27 |
The Echoing Green. The sun does arise | 28 |
The Lamb. Little lamb, who made thee? | 29 |
The Little Black Boy. My mother bore me in the southern wild | 30 |
The Blossom. Merry, merry sparrow! | 31 |
The Chimney-Sweeper. When my mother died I was very young | 32 |
The Little Boy Lost. Father, father, where are you going? | 33 |
The Little Boy Found. The little boy lost in the lonely fen | 33 |
Laughing Song. When the great woods laugh with the voice of joy | 34 |
A Cradle Song. Sweet dreams form a shade | 35 |
The Divine Image. To mercy, pity, peace, and love | 36 |
Holy Thursday. 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean | 37 |
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Night. The Sun descending in the West | 38 |
Spring. Sound the flute! | 40 |
Nurse's Song. When the voices of children are heard on the green | 41 |
Infant Joy. I have no name | 42 |
A Dream. Once a dream did weave a shade | 43 |
On Another's Sorrow. Can I see another's woe | 44 |
The Voice of the Ancient Bard. Youth of delight! come hither | 46 |
SONGS OF EXPERIENCE.
Introduction. Hear the voice of the bard | 47 |
Earth's Answer. Earth raised up her head | 48 |
The Clod and the Pebble. Love seeketh not itself to please | 49 |
Holy Thursday. Is this a holy thing to see | 50 |
The Little Girl Lost. In futurity | 51 |
The Little Girl Found. All the night in woe | 53 |
The Chimney Sweeper. A little black thing among the snow | 55 |
The Sick Rose. O Rose, thou art sick ! | 56 |
Nurse's Song. When the voices of children are heard on the green | 56 |
The Fly. Little Fly | 57 |
The Angel. I dreamt a dream ! What can it mean? | 58 |
The Tiger. Tiger, tiger, burning bright | 59 |
My Pretty Rose Tree. A flower was offered to me | 60 |
Ah! Sunflower. Ah! Sunflower! weary of time | 60 |
The Lily. The modest rose puts forth a thorn | 61 |
The Garden of Love. I laid me down upon a bank | 61 |
The Little Vagabond. Dear mother, dear mother, the church is cold | 62 |
London. I wander through each charter'd street | 63 |
The Human Abstract. Pity would be no more | 64 |
Infant Sorrow. My mother groaned, my father wept | 65 |
Christian Forbearance. I was angry with my friend | 65 |
A Little Boy Lost. Nought loves another as itself | 66 |
A Little Girl Lost. Children of the future age | 67 |
A Cradle Song. Sleep, sleep, beauty bright | 68 |
The Schoolboy. I love to rise on a summer morn | 69 |
To Tirzah. Whate'er is born of mortal birth | 70 |
THE BOOK OF THEL | 71 |
Introductory Note | 76 |
The Birds. Where thou dwellest, in what grove | 78 |
Broken Love. My spectre around me night and day | 79 |
The Two Songs. I heard an angel singing | 81 |
The Defiled Sanctuary. I saw a chapel all of gold | 82 |
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Cupid. Why was Cupid a boy? | 83 |
The Woman taken in Adultery. The vision of Christ that thou dost see | 84 |
Love's Secret. Never seek to tell thy love | 86 |
The Wild Flower's Song. As I wandered in the forest | 87 |
The Crystal Cabinet. The maiden caught me in the wild | 88 |
Smile and Frown. There is a smile of love | 89 |
The Golden Net. Beneath a white thorn's lovely May | 90 |
The Land of Dreams. Awake, awake, my little boy | 91 |
Mary. Sweet Mary, the first time she ever was there | 92 |
Auguries of Innocence. To see a world in a grain of sand | 94 |
Auguries of Innocence. I travelled through a land of men | 94 |
The Mental Traveller. I travelled through a land of men | 98 |
William Bond. I travelled through a land of men | 103 |
Scoffers. Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau | 105 |
The Agony of Faith. "I see, I see," the mother said | 106 |
Daybreak. To find the western path | 107 |
Thames and Ohio. Why should I care for the men of Thames? | 107 |
Young Love. Are not the joys of morning sweeter | 108 |
Riches. Since all the riches of this world | 108 |
Opportunity. He who bends to himself a joy | 109 |
Seed Sowing. Thou hast a lapful of seed | 109 |
Barren Blossom. I feared the fury of my wind | 110 |
Night and Day. Silent, silent night | 110 |
In A Myrtle Shade. To a lovely myrtle bound | 111 |
Couplets and Fragments | 112 |
Epigrams and Satirical Pieces on Art and Artists | 114 |
PROSE WRITINGS.
Introductory Note | 118 |
Descriptive Catalogue | 119 |
Public Address | 144 |
Memoranda by Blake of his mode of Engraving | 158 |
Sibylline Leaves | 159 |
A Vision of the Last Judgment | 161 |
APPENDIX.
Letters from Blake to Mr. Butts | 178 |
Annotated Catalogue of Blake's Pictures and Drawings. List I, of Works in Colours. | |
Section a. Dated Works | 201 |
Section b. Undated Works. Biblical and Sacred | 223 |
Ditto Ditto Poetic and Miscellaneous | 232 |
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List II. Uncoloured Works. | |
Section a. Dated Works | 240 |
Section b. Undated Works. Biblical and Sacred | 246 |
Ditto ditto Poetic and Miscellaneous | 248 |
List III. Works of Unascertained Method. | |
Biblical and Sacred | 255 |
Poetic and Miscellaneous | 255 |
Account between Blake and Mr. Butts | 256 |
Lists of Engravings. | |
Works designed as well as engraved by Blake | 257 |
Works engraved, but not designed by Blake | 259 |
Works designed, but not engraved by Blake | 261 |
List of Writings | 261 |
Prospectus by Blake issued in 1793 | 263 |
Engraved Designs by Blake. | 265 |
The Book of Job. | |
Songs of Innocence and Experience. |
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