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 ...
Come queen of months in companyWi all thy merry minstrelsyThe restless cuckoo absent longAnd twittering swallows chimney songAnd hedge row ...
1Peace, clamorous trumpets! Silence, drums!Be breathless all and hush!Let die applause. My lady comes,My lady of the blush.She's bashfuller than ...
Withering and keen the winter comesWhile comfort flyes to close shut roomsAnd sees the snow in feathers passWinnowing by the ...
Unequaled genius, whose warm fancy knows No rhyming labor, no poetic throes; To whom Apollo has unlocked his store; Whose coin is struck ...
When I was but a little boy Who hunted in the wood To scare or mangle or destroy A freakish elemental joy That tasted ...
What Nature makes in any moodTo me is warranted for good,Though long before I learned to seeShe did not set ...
This homely bush doth to mine eyes exposeA very fair, yea, comely ruddy rose.This rose doth also bow its head ...
When I have a house . . . as I sometime may . . .I'll suit my fancy in every ...
The Glugs still live in the land of Gosh,Under the rule of the great King Splosh. And they climb the ...
The sun burns hotly thro' the gumsAs down the road old Rogan comes - The hatter from the lonely ...
At Quincey's moat the squandering village ends, And there in the almshouse dwell the dearest friends ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
I I took the clock down from the shelf; "At eight," said I, "I shoot myself." It lacked a minute ...
This is the tale that was told to me by the man with the crystal eye, As I smoked my ...
You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot ...
Oh, the charm of idle dreaming Where the dappled shadows dance, All the leafy aisles are teeming With the lure ...
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