William Blake - The Garden of Love (powerful life poetry)

William Blake is considered to be one of the greatest visionaries of the early Romantic era. In addition to writing such poems as “The Garden of Love” and “The Tyger,” Blake was primarily occupied as an engraver and watercolour artist. Today Blake's poetic genius has largely outstripped his visual artistic renown. Transcript: The Garden of Love By William Blake - I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.