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William Blake

A radical thinker for his day, William Blake privileged imagination over reason in the creation of his poetry and images....
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		Poems About Birthdays
		A Birthday by Christina Rossetti

		A Happy Birthday by Ted Kooser

		A Newborn Girl at Passover by Nan Cohen

		Crossroads by Joyce Sutphen

		Morning Song by Sylvia Plath

		On His Seventy-fifth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor

		Poem at Thirty by Michael Ryan

		Poems About Birth and Parenting
		A Woman Waits for Me by Walt Whitman

		After Making Love We Hear Footsteps by Galway Kinnell

		Central Park, Carousel by Meena Alexander

		Curriculum Vitae by Lisel Mueller

		Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta by Reetika Vazirani

		Gods by Michael Redhill

		Honey by Arielle Greenberg

		Morning Song by Sylvia Plath

		The Author to Her Book by Anne Bradstreet

		The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks

		The Sick Child by Robert Louis Stevenson

		Tract by William Carlos Williams

		You Begin by Margaret Atwood

Infant Joy
by William Blake

"I have no name: I am but two days old." What shall I call thee? "I happy am, Joy is my name." Sweet joy befall thee! Pretty joy! Sweet joy, but two days old. Sweet Joy I call thee: Thou dost smile, I sing the while; Sweet joy befall thee!