605. The Garden of Love by William Blake
William Blake read by Classic Poetry Aloud\n\nwww.classicpoetryaloud.com\nTwitter: @classicpoetry\nFacebook: www.facebook.com/poetryaloud\n\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\n\n-----------------------------------------------\n\nThe Garden of Love\nby William Blake (1757 \u2013 1827)\n\nI went to the Garden of Love,\nAnd saw what I never had seen;\nA Chapel was built in the midst,\nWhere I used to play on the green.\n\nAnd the gates of this Chapel were shut,\nAnd 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;\nSo I turned to the Garden of Love\nThat so many sweet flowers bore.\n\nAnd I saw it was filled with graves,\nAnd tombstones where flowers should be;\nAnd priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,\nAnd binding with briars my joys and desires.\n\n\nReading \xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud, 2008.