Wednesday, 30 April 2008

A Short Poem...

'A Divine Image'
William Blake

Cruelty has a Human Heart
And Jealousy a Human Face
Terror, the Human Form Divine
And Secrecy, the Human Dress

The Human Dress is forged Iron
The Human Form, a fiery Forge
The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd
The Human Heart, it's hungry Gorge.

2 comments:

vachefolle said...

William Blake....It rings a bell. Wasn't he in Eastenders?

SickenedStudent said...

Yes Marie, before that he was one of England's greatest artists, craftsmen and thinkers, but it was his acting career which the critics seemed to latch on to...