A poison Tree
Klaus Michaelson made an allusion to this poem by William Blake on TV series "The originals" and I couldn't contain the excitement in me to share it with a larger audience.
I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I water’d it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright;
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,
And into my garden stole
When the night had veil’d the pole:
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch’d beneath the tree.
- 1794 (From The Poetical Works of William Blake. Ed. With an Introduction and Textual Notes by John Sampson. Oxford UP, 1913)
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