William Blake Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

  William Blake

  Birthday, Mother, Father

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Infant Sorrow'

• Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow filled? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan, an infant fear? No, no! never can it be! Never, never can it be!

  William Blake

  Mother, Children, Father

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'On Another's Sorrow'

• My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

  William Blake

  Mother, Children, Angel

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Little Black Boy'

• Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.

  William Blake

  Mother, House, Healthy

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.81, Wordsworth Editions

• 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.

  William Blake

  Mother, Father, Sleep

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Chimney Sweeper'

• Struggling in my father's hands,
  Striving against my swaddling bands,
  Bound and weary, I thought best
  To sulk upon my mother's breast.

  William Blake

  Mother, Father, Struggle

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.166, Oxford University Press, USA

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