greykit.poetry — #vision

• 1912 [edna-st-vincent-millay] Renascence
  Renascence and Other Poems

  Written at nineteen: the horizon presses down until the whole of infinity and all the world's suffering pours through her, she is buried and prays for rain — and comes back up into a world whose sky is no wider than the soul.

  #lyric#vision#rebirth#1910s
• 1863 [william-blake] Auguries of Innocence
  The Pickering Manuscript

  Blake's great chain of auguries — 132 lines of compressed vision reading the infinite in the finite: a world in a grain of sand, a heaven in a wildflower, and the tyranny we inflict on the smallest creatures reverberating through all of human life.

  #aphorism#vision#nature#innocence#1800s