| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | London | | By William Blake (1757–1827) |
| | | I WANDER thro’ each charter’d street, | |
| Near where the charter’d Thames does flow, | |
| And mark in every face I meet | |
| Marks of weakness, marks of woe. | |
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| In every cry of every Man, | 5 |
| In every Infant’s cry of fear, | |
| In every voice, in every ban, | |
| The mind-forg’d manacles I hear. | |
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| How the Chimney sweeper’s cry | |
| Every black’ning Church appalls; | 10 |
| And the hapless Soldier’s sigh | |
| Runs in blood down Palace walls. | |
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| But most thro’ midnight streets I hear | |
| How the youthful Harlot’s curse | |
| Blasts the new born Infant’s tear, | 15 |
| And blights with plague the Marriage hearse. | | | | |
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