A Little Boy Lost Comments

Nought loves another as itself, Nor venerates another so,

Nought loves another as itself

Blake is one of my favorite poet. He is a poet who writes in a way that there is always more than meets the eye. This poem is no exception.

Wow..... I love this piece, emotional. 'The weeping parents wept in vain'

like it.

Dont forget the slave trade under the pretence of benighting heathens and yet the barbarism displayed was unchristian.And today the same attitude persists achieving the same effect using a different modus operandi. It is up to poets to write the wrongs and save the world

" I love you like the little bird That picks up crumbs around the door." Awesome conceptualization. A pleasure to read.

And burned him in a holy place Where many had been burned before; The weeping parents wept in vain. Are such thing done on Albion's shore? such a great write; great rated 10+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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A ghastly tale told so very elegantly.... The boys reasoning quite astute, I think, but to be met with such barbarity for falling outside the norm... I often forget the treacherous and inhumane way people treated one another back then. Drawing and quartering - a ghastly execution style by which four horses are tied to the limbs and driven in four different directions - was still very popular method during Blake's lifetime. Trial by fire, or trial by water consisted of subjecting a person to either burning or drowning for a set period of time - if he survived then it was deemed that God found him innocent. Blake was 36 years old when Marie Antoinette had her head so grisly cut off. It's amazing to me how much beauty and depth of feeling we can find in the words of those who lived then.... having lived in such an inhospitable time.... that marks the greatest civility I can imagine.

great poem of emotions

..................so true we must love ourselves before we can love others....

I feel that this poem describes how people often put religion before basic morals, and in doing so they are actually defying the religion. Isn't the base of most religions, especially Christianity, be good to one another? Yet through out history, people have been tortured and killed, all in the name of their peace loving religion.

An amazing poem, not only for it's composition but for its content. The Priest sat by and heard the child; In trembling zeal he seized his hair, He led him by his little coat, And all admired the priestly care. And standing on the altar high, 'Lo, what a fiend is here! said he: 'One who sets reason up for judge Of our most holy mystery.' The weeping child could not be heard, The weeping parents wept in vain: They stripped him to his little shirt, And bound him in an iron chain, And burned him in a holy place Where many had been burned before; The weeping parents wept in vain. Are such thing done on Albion's shore? There was a time when religious authorities had the power to slay those they accused of being heretics, in my universe, unthinkable! An amazing write, but then, William Blake was quite an amazing Soul!

Just in tears.... Seeing the cruelty of man that stems from literarilism of fundamentalism

i remember reading love your neighbor as yourself.. since we all originate from the same ultimate source.. and no man is without sin..a well written poem!

Great poem

I don't care for this poem...see enough of terrible stuff on daily news, don't really need it my poetry readings. Constance

religion/homophobia/mother was catholic, married C of E her sister married a Jew. In England through the ages religion has been involved, thank god(no pun intended) its starting to abate

What strong and perfect references - I love Blake's style. Too bad freedom isnt' always free. On the other hand, not everyone is bound to reason.