The Sick Rose

By William Blake

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.

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Poet, painter, engraver, and visionary William Blake worked to bring about a change both in the social order and in the minds of men. Though in his lifetime his work was largely neglected or dismissed, he is now considered one of the leading lights of...

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Region:
- England
School/Period:
- Romantic

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The Sick Rose

British Romanticism

Ah! Sun-flower

Auguries of Innocence

The Book of Thel

The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow

The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died I was very young

The Sick Rose