John Clare quotes
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- "squalid camp" " a quiet pilfering unprotected race"
- Gypsy camp
- "hypocrites" "wrong was right and right was wrong"
- The fallen elm
- "you worked me till i couldn't stand and crush me now im down"
- Swordy well
- "now joys cup in drained and hopes fountain dry"
- Love and memory
- "bard of the wild flowers"
- To be placed at the back of his portrait
- "Adam" "Eve" and "The daisy"
- Eternity of nature
- "Nightingales rich song is so fondly praised in poets rhymes"
- The Wren
- "enclosures came and trampled on the grave of labours"
- the moors (grave)
- " bard of immortality"
- A vision
- " i am yet what i am none cares of knows"
- I am
- "in prision and still to be free" " does real love exist? Tis like a sunbeam in the mist"
- Song: say what is love
- "mock at wisdom which they cant posess"
- Shadows of taste
- "unbounded freedom"
- The moors
- " longs to sleep as i in childhood slept untroubling and untroubled"
- i am (3)
- "southern wind" "golden bill" "how luscious comes the scent of blossomed beans"
- The beans in blossom (touch,sight,scent)
- "where the sun forgets the day" "where stones will turn to streams"
- Envite to Eternity
- "rolled up like a ball" "savage of a dog" " with mouth scarce big enough to hold a straw" "no one cares and still the strife goes on"
- Sonnets: The Hedgedog
- "the little wren"
- "simple pleasures" like
- " a board sticks up a notice 'no road here' the hated sign by vulgar taste hung"
- the moors ( no road here)
- "when out a old mouse bolted in the wheat with all her young haging at her teat. she looked so old and so grotesque to me"
- I found a ball of grass among the hay
- "the book i love is everywhere" " i found the poems in the field and only wrote them down"
- Sighing for retirement
- "common blades of grass"
- "beauty" of
- "the child with pleasure in his eyes shall cry "the daisy" " golden bossom frilled with snow"
- Eternity of nature
- "dreaded" "caution" "trespass" "lawless law"
- I dreaded walking where there was no path
- "glittering dewdrops, moist the maidens gown and sparkling bounces off her nimble feet"
- The wheat rippening
- " i've often found their nest in chance's way"
- Pettichaps nest
- "if i brought harvest twice a year you'd bring me nothing back"
- swordy well (3) harvest
- "simple language with real characters from everyday (often peasent) backgrounds"
- Lyrical ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge
- " mulberry bushes where the boy would run to fill his hands with fruit are grubbed and done"
- the moors (mulberry)
- "tottering"
- Little Trotty Wagtail
- " a greedy pack they rend and delve and tear the very grass off my back i've scarce a rag to wear"
- swordy well ( abuse)
- "enclousures like a bonaparte let not a thing remain" "naked"
- Rememberances
- "her face was smiling like the sun"
- Song: The morning mist is changing blue
- "muddy fields" "haking cough" "wetshod feet" "cheat the sway of winter" "badly off"
- Winter fields
- "light winged dryad" (greek)
- Keats ode to the nightingale
- "Parnass" "Castaly"
- Yellowhammers nest
- " i am the self consumer of my woes"
- i am (2)
- "i would not that all my being all should die and pass away with his common lot"
- Memory