John Clare
John Clare1793–186418th centuryRomanticism John Clare was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and his sorrows at its disruption. His work underwent major re-evaluation in the late 20th century; he is now often seen as a major 19th-century poet. His biographer Jonathan Bate called Clare "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self."
Poems
150 poems- "The Lass With The Delicate Air"14 lines
- A World for Love20 lines
- All Nature Has a Feeling9 lines
- Approaching Night51 lines
- Audio formats available:6 lines
- August 20074 lines
- Autumn Birds14 lines
- Badger40 lines
- BALLAD24 lines
- Bantry Bay24 lines
- Birds in Alarm14 lines
- Bonny Lassie O!24 lines
- Bonny Mary O!24 lines
- Braggart14 lines
- Clock-a-Clay24 lines
- Country Letter30 lines
- David Barnes47 lines
- Death26 lines
- Decay80 lines
- Dewdrops16 lines
- Distant Hills48 lines
- Dyke Side14 lines
- Early Nightingale14 lines
- Early Spring12 lines
- Earth's Eternity97 lines
- EFFUSION54 lines
- Emmonsail's Heath in Winter14 lines
- Evening Primrose14 lines
- Farewell14 lines
- Farewell and Defiance to Love80 lines
- Farm Breakfast14 lines
- Farmer's Boy14 lines
- Field Path10 lines
- First Love24 lines
- Firwood12 lines
- Fragment8 lines
- From "A Rhapsody"35 lines
- From "January"150 lines
- From "The Parish: A Satire"54 lines
- Gipsies14 lines
- Grasshoppers6 lines
- Graves of Infants18 lines
- Hodge14 lines
- House or Window Flies9 lines
- I Am18 lines
- I Dreamt of Robin24 lines
- Idle Fame8 lines
- Impromptu16 lines
- In Hilly-Wood14 lines
- Insects24 lines
- Invitation to Eternity32 lines
- Language: English4 lines
- Letter in Verse20 lines
- Little Trotty Wagtail12 lines
- Love40 lines
- Love and Solitude14 lines
- Love Cannot Die24 lines
- Love Lives Beyond the Tomb24 lines
- Market Day14 lines
- Mary Bateman24 lines
- Mary Bayfield32 lines
- Meet Me in the Green Glen20 lines
- Merry Maid14 lines
- MY LOVE, THOU ART A NOSEGAY SWEET12 lines
- Nature's Hymn to the Deity24 lines
- Nightwind14 lines
- Nobody Cometh to Woo48 lines
- NOON76 lines
- November81 lines
- Now is Past30 lines
- Page75 lines
- PATTY24 lines
- PATTY OF THE VALE32 lines
- Peggy16 lines
- Peggy's the Lady of the Hall30 lines
- Pleasures of Fancy14 lines
- Ploughman Singing14 lines
- Quail's Nest20 lines
- Remembrances80 lines
- RURAL EVENING150 lines
- Scandal14 lines
- Secret Love24 lines
- Section 2.15 lines
- Section 3.16 lines
- Section 4.27 lines
- Section 5.23 lines
- Signs of Winter14 lines
- Snow Storm28 lines
- Song's Eternity49 lines
- Spear Thistle60 lines
- Sport in the Meadows62 lines
- Spring's Messengers14 lines
- Stonepit14 lines
- Sudden Shower14 lines
- Summer16 lines
- Summer Winds24 lines
- Sunday Dip14 lines
- The Ants84 lines
- The Beautiful Stranger14 lines
- The Cottager104 lines
- The Crow Sat on the Willow40 lines
- The Dying Child30 lines
- The Fallen Elm71 lines
- The Fear of Flowers14 lines
- The Fens95 lines
- The Firetail's Nest14 lines
- The Flood14 lines
- The Fox28 lines
- The Frightened Ploughman20 lines
- THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE7 lines
- The Gipsy's Camp37 lines
- THE HARVEST MORNING89 lines
- The Lout14 lines
- The Maid of Jerusalem20 lines
- The Maple Tree14 lines
- THE MEETING24 lines
- The Mole-Catcher32 lines
- The Mores80 lines
- The Old Cottagers32 lines
- The Old Year24 lines
- The Peasant Poet16 lines
- The Poet's Death16 lines
- The Sailor-Boy28 lines
- The Shepherd's Tree14 lines
- The Skylark26 lines
- The Sleep of Spring42 lines
- The Soldier14 lines
- The Stranger48 lines
- The Swallow24 lines
- The Thrush's Nest14 lines
- The Tramp14 lines
- THE UNIVERSAL EPITAPH8 lines
- The Vixen14 lines
- The Winter's Come27 lines
- The Wood-cutter's Night Song40 lines
- The Yellowhammer14 lines
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- Thou Flower of Summer20 lines
- TO AN APRIL DAISY24 lines
- To Anna Three Years Old32 lines
- To John Clare14 lines
- To John Milton "From his honoured friend, William Davenant"72 lines
- To Napoleon14 lines
- TO THE CLOUDS22 lines
- Turkeys12 lines
- WHAT IS LIFE?66 lines
- Where She Told Her Love30 lines
- Wild Bees37 lines
- Winter Walk14 lines
- Young Lambs14 lines