William Blake: Songs of Experience — The Sunflower

Songs of Experience — The Sunflower

Ah, Sunflower! weary of time,

Who countest the steps of the sun,

Seeking after that sweet golden clime

Where the traveller's journey is done;

Where the youth pined away with desire

And the pale virgin shrouded in snow

Arise from their graves, and aspire

Where my Sunflower wishes to go.

William Blake

Johnny Depp as William Blake (Jim Jarmusch film "Dead Men")

Ach, Sonnenblume!

Ach, Sonnenblume! du bist es müd'

zu bemessen der Sonne Hast,

suchend das glückliche Land im Süd,

wo der Reisende findet Rast:

Wo der Jüngling, der hinschwand in Schmachten,

und die Jungfrau, das Herz vereist,

aus den Gräbern erstehn und trachten,

wohin meine Sonnenblume weist. 

William Blake