The Shepherds Calendar – July (John Clare Poems)
Daughter of pastoral smells and sightsAnd sultry days and dewy nightsJuly resumes her yearly placeWi her milking maiden faceRuddy and ...
Daughter of pastoral smells and sightsAnd sultry days and dewy nightsJuly resumes her yearly placeWi her milking maiden faceRuddy and ...
The Argument.First at Glentroll doth Scotts renowned PrinceGet victorie aboue the English foeDouglas at Ederfoord with valiaunceBy fourtie doth a ...
Bees.See Labour.Of all the mute Creation, These aloneA public Weal, and common Int'rest know,Imbody'd: and subsist by certain Laws.Mindful of ...
In Britain's Isle and Arthur's days,When Midnight Faeries daunc'd the Maze,Liv'd Edwin of the Green;Edwin, I wis, a gentle Youth,Endow'd ...
My parents were sober living, and often did prayFor their family to abstain from intoxicating drink alway;Because they knew it ...
Wake now, my Soul, and humbly hearWhat thy mild Lord commands:Each word of his wil charm thine ear,Each word wil ...
In Florimel's Arms, and almost out of Breath,I'll kiss Thee, my Charmer! I'll kiss Thee to Death!Cry'd Thyrsis, in Raptures,--but ...
Our English Homer in his Rhimes,Asserts our Notions change with Times;This Maxim granted, makes me doubt,When some few Years are ...
BRITANNIA.Wretched Britannia! Hapless and undone! How have my Follies call'd this Vengeance down, And anger'd Heav'n to so severe a ...
NOW Robin Hood, Will Scadlock and Little JohnAre walking over the plain,With a good fat buck which Will ScadlockWith his ...
I. When Fate its utmost Cruelty had shown, And the Illustrious Charles was now no more, Th' Illustrious Charles, ...
I'd fain instruct you, pretty Bell,How you most others might excel;The Lesson's short, and mighty easy,I scorn with long Harangues ...
Weary, at last, of the Pindarick way, Thro' which advent'rously the Muse wou'd stray; To Fable I descend with soft ...
Surfeited here with beauty, and the sensuous-sweet perfume, Borne in from a thousand gardens and orchards of orange-bloom Awed by ...
Beneath this gloomy shade,By Nature only for my sorrows made,I'll spend this voyce in crys,In tears I'll waste these eyesBy ...
CUPID, ere depriv'd of Sight, Young and apt for all Delight, Met with Folly on the way, As Idle and ...
O for a Booke and a shadie nook.Eyther in-a doore or out;With the grene leaves whispering overhede,Or the Streets crys ...
Weary, at last, of the Pindarick way, Thro' which advent'rously the Muse wou'd stray; To Fable I descend with soft ...
CUPID, ere depriv'd of Sight, Young and apt for all Delight, Met with Folly on the way, As Idle and ...
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