Then the Inhabitants of those Cities: Felt their Nerves change into Marrow And hardening Bones began In swift diseases and torments, In throbbings & shootings & grindings...
In terrors Los shrunk from his task: His great hammer fell from his hand: His fires beheld, and sickening, Hid their strong limbs in smoke. For with noises ruinous loud;...
Urizen explor'd his dens Mountain, moor, & wilderness, With a globe of fire lighting his journey A fearful journey, annoy'd By cruel enormities: forms Of life on his forsaken mountains...
A Little Cat played on a silver flute, And a Big Cat sat and listened; The Little Cat's strains gave the Big Cat pains, And a tear on his eyelid glistened.
And now the Goddess founds her silver shell, And shakes with deeper tones the inchanted dell; Pale, round her grassy throne, bedew'd with tears, Flit the thin forms of Sorrows, and of Fears;...
And he had mused on lands each bird, That winged from realms of Falerina, O'er seas of the Enchanted Sword, In romance sang him, till he heard Vague foam on Islands of Alcina. ...
I'd rather sit here, Mr. Sheriff - up near to the end of the car; We won't do so much advertising if we stay in the seat where we are. That sweet little dude saw the bracelets that you on my wrists have bestowed,...
Las' time 'at Uncle Sidney come, He bringed a watermelon home - An' half the boys in town, Come taggin' after him. - An' he Says, when we et it, - "Gracious me! 'S the boy-house fell down?"
Between the ringing of bells and the musical clang of chimes I hear a sound like the breaking of chains, all through these Christmas times. For the thought of the world is waking out of a slumber deep and long,...