Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

House Or Window Flies

These little window dwellers, in cottages and halls, were alwaysentertaining to me; after dancing in the window all day from sunriseto sunset they..

© John Clare

Hodge

He plays with other boys when work is done,But feels too clumsy and too stiff to run,Yet where there's mischief he can find a wayThe first to join..

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Hen's Nest

Among the orchard weeds, from every search,Snugly and sure, the old hen’s nest is made,Who cackles every morning from her perchTo tell the servant..

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Graves Of Infants

Infant' graves are steps of angels, whereEarth's brightest gems of innocence repose.God is their parent, and they need no tear;He takes them to His..

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Grasshoppers

Grasshoppers go in many a thumming springAnd now to stalks of tasseled sow-grass cling,That shakes and swees awhile, but still keeps straight;While..

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Gipsies

The snow falls deep; the forest lies alone;The boy goes hasty for his load of brakes,Then thinks upon the fire and hurries back;The gipsy knocks his..

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From The Parish: A Satire

IIn politics and politicians' liesThe modern farmer waxes wondrous wise;Opinionates with wisdom all compact,And een could tell a nation how to..

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From

Sweet solitude, what joy to be alone--In wild, wood-shady dell to stay for hours.Twould soften hearts if they were hard as stoneTo see glad..

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Fragment

The cataract, whirling down the precipice,Elbows down rocks and, shouldering, thunders through.Roars, howls, and stifled murmurs never cease;Hell and..

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Firwood

The fir trees taper into twigs and wearThe rich blue green of summer all the year,Softening the roughest tempest almost calmAnd offering shelter ever..

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First Love

I ne'er was struck before that hourWith love so sudden and so sweet,Her face it bloomed like a sweet flowerAnd stole my heart away complete.My face..

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Field Path

The beams in blossom with their spots of jetSmelt sweet as gardens wheresoever met;The level meadow grass was in the swath;The hedge briar rose hung..

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Farmer's Boy

He waits all day beside his little flockAnd asks the passing stranger what's o'clock,But those who often pass his daily tasksLook at their watch and..

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Farm Breakfast

Maids shout to breakfast in a merry strife,And the cat runs to hear the whetted knife,And dogs are ever in the way to watchThe mouldy crust and..

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Farewell And Defiance To Love

Love and thy vain employs, awayFrom this too oft deluded breast!No longer will I court thy stay,To be my bosom's teazing guest.Thou treacherous..

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Farewell

Farewell to the bushy clump close to the riverAnd the flags where the butter-bump hides in forever;Farewell to the weedy nook, hemmed in by..

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Evening Primrose

When once the sun sinks in the west,And dewdrops pearl the evening's breast;Almost as pale as moonbeams are,Or its companionable star,The evening..

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Evening

'Tis evening; the black snail has got on his track,And gone to its nest is the wren,And the packman snail, too, with his home on his back,Clings to..

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Emmonsail's Heath In Winter

I love to see the old heath's withered brakeMingle its crimpled leaves with furze and ling,While the old heron from the lonely lakeStarts slow and..

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Earth's Eternity

Man, Earth's poor shadow! talks of Earth's decay:But hath it nothing of eternal kin?No majesty that shall not pass away?No soul of greatness..

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Early Spring

The Spring is come, and Spring flowers coming too,The crocus, patty kay, the rich hearts' ease;The polyanthus peeps with blebs of dew,And daisy..

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Early Nightingale

When first we hear the shy-come nightingales,They seem to mutter o’er their songs in fear,And, climb we e’er so soft the spinney rails,All stops as..

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Dyke Side

The frog croaks loud, and maidens dare not passBut fear the noisome toad and shun the grass;And on the sunny banks they dare not goWhere hissing..

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Distant Hills

What is there in those distant hillsMy fancy longs to see,That many a mood of joy instils?Say what can fancy be?Do old oaks thicken all the..

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Dewdrops

The dewdrops on every blade of grass are so much like silver dropsthat I am obliged to stoop down as I walk to see if they are pearls,and those..

© John Clare