Memory, hither come,
And tune your merry notes;
And, while upon the wind,
Your music floats,
I'll pore upon the stream,
Where sighing lovers dream,
And fish for fancies as they pass
Within the watery glass.
I'll drink of the clear stream,
And hear the linnet's song;
And there I'll lie and dream
The day along:
And, when night comes, I'll go
To places fit for woe,
Walking along the darken'd valley,
With silent Melancholy.
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Poet
William Blake
1757–1827
POET’S REGION
England
SCHOOL / PERIOD
Romantic
Subjects
Arts & Sciences,
Nature,
Seas, Rivers, & Streams,
Landscapes & Pastorals,
Love,
Living,
Music,
Relationships,
Sorrow & Grieving,
Unrequited Love,
Heartache & Loss
Poetic Terms
Imagery,
Couplet
In his Life of William Blake (1863) Alexander Gilchrist warned his readers that Blake "neither wrote nor drew for the many, hardly for work'y-day men at all, rather for children and angels; himself 'a divine child,' whose playthings were sun, moon, and stars, the heavens and the earth." Yet Blake himself believed that his writings were of national importance and that they could be understood by a majority of men. Far from . . .
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Poem Categorization
SUBJECT
Arts & Sciences,
Nature,
Seas, Rivers, & Streams,
Landscapes & Pastorals,
Love,
Living,
Music,
Relationships,
Sorrow & Grieving,
Unrequited Love,
Heartache & Loss
POET’S REGION
England
SCHOOL / PERIOD
Romantic
Poetic Terms
Imagery,
Couplet
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