For a Tear is an Intellectual thing;
And a Sigh is the Sword of an Angel King
And the bitter groan of a Martyr’s woe
Is an Arrow from the Almighty’s Bow.
(William Blake, excerpt from “To the Deists,” in Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion.)
Alas! the Female Martyr
Is She also the Divine Image?
(William Blake, For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise.)