Blake seeks to provide the Golden String which can lead us through the labyrinth of our experience or his own poetry.

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

MORE STRINGS

Jerusalem, Plate 20, (E 165)
"Vala replied weeping & trembling, hiding in her veil.

When winter rends the hungry family and the snow falls:
Upon the ways of men hiding the paths of man and beast,
Then mourns the wanderer: then he repents his wanderings & eyes
The distant forest; then the slave groans in the dungeon of stone.    
The captive in the mill of the stranger, sold for scanty hire.
They view their former life: they number moments over and over;
Stringing them on their remembrance as on a thread of sorrow."
 
Jerusalem, Plate 77   
Cumberland's Card  
River of Life
Illustrations to Blair's The Grave
Our Time Is Fixed

Illustrations to Young's Night Thoughts
 
Jerusalem, Plate 100

Water-colours for the Poems of Thomas Gray


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