The Sister Arts - British Gardening, Painting, & Poetry (1700-1832)
Home Beautiful Neoclassical Picturesque Romantic Sublime
Intro Architecture Painting Poetry Poetry
|  
Sublime > Poetry
1.William Blake - Earth's Answer
2.William Blake - The Sick Rose
3.Shelley - Mont Blanc - Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni
4.Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) - from Beachy Head
5.William Wordsworth - Elegiac Stanzas - Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm, painted by Sir George Beaumont
 



2. "The Sick Rose"

William Blake
(1757-1827)

O ROSE thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.