A Divine Image

Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secresy the human dress.

The human dress is forged iron,
The human form a fiery forge,
The human face a furnace sealed,
The human heart its hungry gorge.

About William Blake

English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in Romantic poetry.