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poems provoked by some of the
 proverbs of hell 
listed inthe marriage of heaven and hellby william blake
 PROVERBSOF HELL
RG GREGORY1971
 
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proverbs of hell
Copyright © RG Gregory 2002RG Gregory is hereby identified as the author of this work in accordance withSection 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act. 1988.The moral right of the author has been asserted.All rights reserved.
a memorable fancy
as i was walking among the fires of hell, delightedwith the enjoyments of Genius, which to Angels looklike torment and insanity, I collected some of theirProverbs, thinking that as the sayings used in anation mark their character, so the Proverbs of Hellshew the nature of infernal wisdom better than anydescription of buildings or garmentsWhen I came home, on the abyss of the five senses,where a flat sided steep frowns over the presentworld, I saw a mighty devil folded in black cloudshovering on the sides of the rock; with corrodingfires he wrote the following sentence now perceivedby the minds of men, & read by them on earth.
how do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy wayis an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?
william blakethe marriage of heaven and hell
 
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proverbs of hell
the cut worm forgives the plow3dip him in the river who loves water6no bird soars too high who soars with his own wings7the eagle never lost so much time as when he submittedto learn of the crow9exuberance is beauty12prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by incapacity13expect poison from standing water15one thought fills immensity21
drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead
24the road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom71enough! or too much73
notethe poems in this book test the propositions implicit in blake's proverbssometimes by accepting the proposition's truth from the startand exploring within its intentionssometimes by challenging the propositiontaking it to an extreme (or absurd) edgeand treating it almost disrespectfullyoverall though the book sets out from blake's proverbsthrough a hell of its ownand arrives at a statement that is everything to do with its own dayand may or may not have that relevance to blake's time and ideasthat first provoked the investigation of these proverbs
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