Sunflower

 Ah! Sun-flower

by William Blake

Ah Sun-flower! weary of time,

Who countest the steps of the Sun:

Seeking after that sweet golden clime

Where the travellers journey is done.

Where the Youth pined away with desire,

And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow:

Arise from their graves and aspire,

Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.

"Sunflower" by Mason Williams

Quotation from William Blake: How Is Nature Seen?

HOW IS NATURE SEEN?

     The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.  Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my proportions; and some scarce see Nature at all.  But to the eyes of the man of imagination Nature is Imagination itself.  As a man is, so he sees.

     WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

     English artist, poet and mystic

William Blake in a portrait by Thomas Phillips (1807)