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John Clare's Poetry, by title

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  • "The Lass With The Delicate Air"
    Timid and smiling, beautiful and shy,
    She drops her head at every passer bye.
    13 lines
  • A vision
    I lost the love of heaven above,
    I spurned the lust of earth below,
    18 lines
  • A World For Love
    Oh, the world is all too rude for thee, with much ado and care;
    Oh, this world is but a rude world, and hurts a thing so fair;
    23 lines
  • All nature has a feeling
    All nature has a feeling: woods, fields, brooks
    Are life eternal: and in silence they
    9 lines
  • An Invite, to Eternity
    Wilt thou go with me, sweet maid,
    Say, maiden, wilt thou go with me
    25 lines, 3 comments
  • Approaching Night
    O take this world away from me;
    Its strife I cannot bear to see,
    55 lines
  • Autumn
    The thistledown's flying, though the winds are all still,
    On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill,
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • Autumn
    Autumn comes laden with her ripened load
    Of fruitage and so scatters them abroad
    13 lines
  • Autumn
    I love the fitful gust that shakes
      The casement all the day,
    26 lines
  • Autumn Birds
    The wild duck startles like a sudden thought,
    And heron slow as if it might be caught.
    14 lines
  • Badger
    When midnight comes a host of dogs and men
    Go out and track the badger to his den,
    40 lines, 1 comment
  • Ballad
    A faithless shepherd courted me,
    He stole away my liberty.
    18 lines
  • Bantry Bay
    On the eighteenth of October we lay in Bantry Bay,
      All ready to set sail, with a fresh and steady gale:
    25 lines
  • Birds In Alarm
    The firetail tells the boys when nests are nigh
    And tweets and flies from every passer-bye.
    14 lines
  • Bonny Lassie O!
    O the evening's for the fair, bonny lassie O!
    To meet the cooler air and walk an angel there,
    28 lines
  • Bonny Mary O!
    The morning opens fine, bonny Mary O!
      The robin sings his song by the dairy O!
    28 lines
  • Braggart
    With careful step to keep his balance up
    He reels on warily along the street,
    13 lines
  • Christmas
    Christmas is come and every hearth
    Makes room to give him welcome now
    152 lines
  • Clock-O'-Clay
    In the cowslip pips I lie,
    Hidden from the buzzing fly,
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • Country Letter
    Dear brother robin this comes from us all
    With our kind love and could Gip write and all
    29 lines
  • Death
    Why should man's high aspiring mind
    Burn in him with so proud a breath,
    70 lines
  • Death
    The winds and waters are in his command,
    Held as a courser in the rider's hand.
    30 lines
  • Decay
    O Poesy is on the wane,
      For Fancy's visions all unfitting;
    86 lines
  • December
    While snow the window-panes bedim,
    The fire curls up a sunny charm,
    24 lines
  • Dewdrops
    The dewdrops on every blade of grass are so much like silver drops
    that I am obliged to stoop down as I walk to see if they are pear
    15 lines
  • Distant Hills
    What is there in those distant hills
      My fancy longs to see,
    64 lines
  • Dyke Side
    The frog croaks loud, and maidens dare not pass
    But fear the noisome toad and shun the grass;
    13 lines
  • Early Nightingale
    When first we hear the shy-come nightingales,
    They seem to mutter o’er their songs in fear,
    14 lines
  • Early Spring
    The Spring is come, and Spring flowers coming too,
        The crocus, patty kay, the rich hearts' ease;
    11 lines
  • Earth's Eternity
    Man, Earth's poor shadow! talks of Earth's decay:
      But hath it nothing of eternal kin?
    13 lines
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