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 ...
Argument:"See, saw, Margery Daw:Sold her bed and lay on straw."The first born son of Lot and Bellicent,Gawain, in far-off days ...
A legend of Ancient Eire a song of Conor and Mona,Who lived near the Halls of Fiarna, and loved in ...
Sweet wight be glad, pluck vp your sprites, Old Friendship is renewd:Milde Concord hath thrown down the broth, That Discord lately brewd.Fowle ...
Ye little flowrets, wild an free, Yo're welcome, aye as onny!Ther's but few seets 'at meet mi ee 'At ivver seem as ...
Old age, aw can feel's creepin on, Aw've noa taste for what once made me glad;Mi love ov wild marlocks is ...
Varry monny years ago, when this world wor rather young,A varry wicked sarpent, wi' a varry oily tongue,Whispered summat varry ...
At Wibsey Slack lived modest Jack, No daat yo knew him weel;His cheeks wor red, his een wor black, His limbs wor ...
The HumiliationThe Summary of the Poem.Theophila, or Divine Love, ascends to her Belov'd by three Degrees. By Humilitie, by Zeal, ...
Neere to the place where Nilus channels runne, There stood a town by loue long since vndone For ...
THE PRELIBATION To the SACRIFICE.ARGUMENT. Spes alit occiduas qui Sublunaribus haeret; Rivales JESUS non in Amore sinit. Quid mihi non ...
Part the First.Henry, our royall kind, would ride a huntingTo the greene forest so pleasant and faire;To see the harts ...
In the palace garden-closeMany a flower buds and blows, —Many a lily, ne'er a rose;And, when on the purple fellsHum ...
Hush, bonnie, dinna greit;Moder will rocke her sweete,— Balow, my boy!When that his toile ben done,Daddie will come anone,—Hush ...
Cherries of the night are riper Than the cherries pluckt at noon Gather to your fairy piper When he pipes ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
An apple arc'd toward Kleitos; whose great King wroth & of wine did study where his sword, sneaked away, might ...
Hide not that sprouting lipp, nor kill The juicy bloome with bashfull skill: Know it is an amorous dewe That ...
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