"A Divine Image" is a poem by William Blake

William Blake

William Blake 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...

 from the Songs of Experience, not to be confused with The Divine Image from the Songs of Innocence.

Text of the poem

A Divine Image



Cruelty has a human heart,

And Jealousy a human face;

Terror the human form divine,

And secrecy the human dress.



The human dress is forged iron,

The human form a fiery forge,

The human face a furnace seal'd,

The human heart its hungry gorge.