The Sick Rose

    - 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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병든 장미

 - 윌리엄 블레이크

  오 장미야, 너 병들었구나

  울부짖는 폭풍 속에서

  밤에 날아다니는

  보이지 않는 벌레가

  진홍빛 기쁨의

  네 침대를 찾아내어,

  그의 검고 비밀한 사랑으로

  너의 생명을 파멸시키는구나

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                        William Blake

                                                          William Blake

                               (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet,   

                                            painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is

                                            now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual

                                            arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what

                                            is in proportion to its merits the least read body of  poetry                                             in the English language". His visual artistry has led one contemporary art critic

                                            to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced"

                                            Although he lived in London his entire life except for three years spent in

                                            Felpham he produced a diverse and symbolically

                                            rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God",

                                            or "Human existence itself"