John Clare Poems (174 Poems)
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 tand yet sweet to viewWhen everywhere’s a vale of dewAnd raps it round her looks that smilesA lovly rest to … Continue reading
The Shepherds Calendar – May (John Clare Poems)
Come queen of months in companyWi all thy merry minstrelsyThe restless cuckoo absent longAnd twittering swallows chimney songAnd hedge row crickets notes that runFrom every bank that fronts the sunAnd swathy bees about the grassThat stops wi every bloom they … Continue reading
The Cross Roads; Or, The Haymaker’s Story (John Clare Poems)
Stopt by the storm, that long in sullen blackFrom the south-west stained its encroaching track,Haymakers, hustling from the rain to hide,Sought the grey willows by the pasture-side;And there, while big drops bow the grassy stems,And bleb the withering hay with … Continue reading
The Shepherds Calendar – March (John Clare Poems)
March month of ‘many weathers’ wildly comesIn hail and snow and rain and threatning humsAnd floods: while often at his cottage doorThe shepherd stands to hear the distant roarLoosd from the rushing mills and river locksWi thundering sound and over … Continue reading
The Shepherd’s Calendar – August (John Clare Poems)
Harvest approaches with its bustling dayThe wheat tans brown and barley bleaches greyIn yellow garb the oat land intervenesAnd tawney glooms the valley thronged with beansSilent the village grows, wood wandering dreamsSeem not so lovely as its quiet seemsDoors are … Continue reading
Summer Images (John Clare Poems)
Now swarthy Summer, by rude health embrowned, Precedence takes of rosy fingered Spring; And laughing Joy, with wild flowers prank’d, and crown’d, A wild and giddy thing, And Health robust, from every care unbound, Come on the zephyr’s wing, And cheer the toiling clown. Happy as … Continue reading
The Flitting (John Clare Poems)
I’ve left my own old home of homes, Green fields and every pleasant place;The summer like a stranger comes, I pause and hardly know her face.I miss the hazel’s happy green, The blue bell’s quiet hanging blooms,Where envy’s sneer was never seen, Where staring … Continue reading
The Cellar Door (John Clare Poems)
By the old tavern door on the causey there layA hogshead of stingo just rolled from a dray,And there stood the blacksmith awaiting a dropAs dry as the cinders that lay in his shop;And there stood the cobbler as dry … Continue reading
The Shepherds Calendar – January- Winters Day (John Clare Poems)
Withering and keen the winter comesWhile comfort flyes to close shut roomsAnd sees the snow in feathers passWinnowing by the window glassAnd unfelt tempests howl and beatAbove his head in corner seatAnd musing oer the changing sceneFarmers behind the tavern … Continue reading
The Shepherd’s Calendar – June (John Clare Poems)
Now summer is in flower and natures humIs never silent round her sultry bloomInsects as small as dust are never doneWi’ glittering dance and reeling in the sunAnd green wood fly and blossom haunting beeAre never weary of their melodyRound … Continue reading
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