English Poetry. William Blake. Epigram. Уильям Блейк.

William Blake (Уильям Блейк)

Epigram

You say their Pictures well Painted be,
And yet they are Blockheads you all agree,
Thank God, I never was sent to School
To be Flogg’d into following the Stile of a Fool.
The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule
Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

William Blake’s other poems:

1. Songs of Experience. The Chimney Sweeper
2. Songs of Experience. Nurse’s Song
3. To the Accuser Who Is the God of This World
4. Songs of Experience. The Sick Rose
5. Eternity

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

George Byron (Джордж Байрон) Epigram (“In digging up your bones, Tom Paine”) January 2, 1820

Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) Epigram (“After such years of dissension and strife”)

Ernest Dowson (Эрнест Доусон) Epigram (“Because I am idolatrous and have besought”)

1529

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