Page:Poetical works of William Blake (Sampson, 1913).djvu/15

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To Thomas Butts 184
To Mrs. Butts
To Thomas Butts
To Thomas Butts
To my friend Butts I write
With Happiness stretch'd across the hills
O ! why was I born with a different face ?

Gnomic Verses, Epigrams, and short Satirical Pieces
Gnomic Verses
Great things are done when men and mountains meet 193
To God ......
They said this mystery never shall cease
An Answer to the Parson
Lacedaemonian Instruction .
Nail his neck to the cross : nail it with a nail
Love to faults is always blind
There souls of men are bought and sold
Soft Snow .....
Abstinence sows sand all over
Merlin's Prophecy
If you trap the moment before it 's ripe
An Old Maid early ere I knew
The sword sung on the barren heath
O lapwing ! thou fliest around the heath
Terror in the house does roar
Several Questions Answered
Eternity
The look of love alarms
Soft deceit and idleness
What is it men in women do require
An ancient Proverb .
If I e'er grow to man's estate
Since all the riches of this world .
Riches
The Angel that presided o'er my birth
Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven
Do what you will this life's a fiction
 

On Art and Artists
Advice of the Popes who succeeded the Age of Raphael . . 198
On the great encouragement given by English nobility and gentry
to Correggio, Rubens, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Catalani,
Du Crow, and Dilbury Doodle x 99
I asked my dear friend Orator Prig ... ... 199
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