‘Ah! Sun-flower’

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.



Written by English poet and painter William Blake (1757-1827)
Published in ‘Songs of Experience’ (1794)