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 ...
To-day the plant by Williams setIts summer bloom discloses;The wilding sweethrier of his prayersIs crowned with cultured roses.Once more the ...
On village green, whose smooth and well worn sod,Cross-path'd with every gossip's foot is trod;By cottage door where playful children ...
Some folk calls me a gabbart, they do, - My owner calls me a lighter.There's many a craft wi' a bigger ...
When the farm work's done, at the set of sun, And the supper's cleared away,And Ma, she sits on the porch ...
Look, my love, on the wall, and here, at this Eastern picture.How still its scene, and neither of sleep nor ...
Some fowk choose one thing, some another, To grace ther prose or rhyme; Some sneerin say 'at tha'lot my brother, Maks me choose ...
INSCRIB'D on many a learned page,In mystic characters and sage,Long time my first has stood;And though its golden age be ...
Oft, as he jogs along the Winding-Way,Occasion comes for Every Man to say,--"This Road?--or That?" and as he chooses them,So ...
I Brag, sweet tenor bull, descant on Rawthey's madrigal, each pebble its part for the fells' late spring. Dance tiptoe, ...
The SailorI'd like to be a sailor - a sailor bold and bluff -Calling out, "Ship ahoy!" in manly tones ...
The stockmen of Australia, what rowdy boys are they,They will curse and swear a hurricane if you come in their ...
I've never met a man who hated dogs....One meets with all sorts as through life he jogs -The mean ones, ...
Come away, Make no delay.Summon all the dust to ...
I'd like to be a baker, and come when morning breaks,Calling out, "Beeay-ko!" (that's the sound he makes) -Riding in ...
Across the stony ridges, Across the rolling plain, Young Harry Dale, the drover, Comes riding home again. And well his ...
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