William Blake Quotes About Sleep

We have collected for you the TOP of William Blake's best quotes about Sleep! Here are collected all the quotes about Sleep starting from the birthday of the Poet – November 28, 1757! We hope you will be inspired to new achievements with our constantly updated collection of quotes. At the moment, this page contains 8 sayings of William Blake about Sleep. We will be happy if you share our collection of quotes with your friends on social networks!
  • Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

    William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge
  • When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

    'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Chimney Sweeper'
  • Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land

    'Milton' (1804-10) Preface 'And did those feet in ancient time'
  • Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright; unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom.

    William Blake, Andrew Lincoln (1991). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.162, Princeton University Press
  • England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?

    'Jerusalem' (1815) 'To the Christians' (plate 77) "England! awake!... "
  • Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.

    William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.151, Pearson Education
  • May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

    "Letter to Thomas Butts, 22 November 1802" (1802)
  • I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.

    'Milton' (1804-10) Preface 'And did those feet in ancient time'
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