John Clare Weblog
Malcolm Guite turns to John Clare
Clouds
To the butterflye
Fluttering thing
The insect world
The holly bush
Lonley shades
Fen
Heaths
Peaceful windings
Patty
The Gipsy
War
Shines like the sun
Hazel bowers
Pudgy paths
Winter occupies
Nobody cometh to woo
Early rising
Footpath winding
Snow storm
Love’s strings
Clare’s Novel
Sweet is the stillness
One white garb
Solitudes
Spring Messengers
Heavy rain
Approach of Spring
Toiling
Poesys measured feet
I early ramble
Housewives tales
Swifter than thought
The storm
Tantey Baker
Hues of every dye
Winter geese
Modern Love
Schoolboys
The sooty crow
A vain life?
Memory
Queen of fairey land
Snow clothd valley
Mice
Solitude
The blushing morn
A lovely charm
A deadly foe
The Firwood
Desolate a waste
Winter shepherd
The winter shepherd
Scenes of Desolation
Wood Rideings
The foddering boy
Evening Pastime
Luck
The wind suthers softly
January (excerpt)
A scrap
Two birthdays
Catkins
Sir Barleycorn
A thousand wings
The Old Year
Christmas or Spring?
Winters sunshine
A fine decembers day
Beauties of a Winter Forrest
Desolation destruction
The Stranger
John Clare’s faith
O thrice lucky town
Love cannot die
Christmas (final)
Christmas (VII)
Christmas (VI)
Christmas (V)
Christmas (IV)
Christmas (III)
Christmas (II)
Christmas (I)
Murmur sweet
In the wood
Bare & Waste
Cant of tyranny
The sky in the river
Lone spots
Winter and a fireside
Gardeners Bonny daughter
Colours of Autumn
My last shilling
The matted shades
Silent birds
Those distant hills
In safe assurance
All to brown
The Tramp
Self interest
At the kitchen fire
The beginning ‘o Love
Woodcutters night song
Come maiden sad
Granduers grove
Desolations hand
Neglect
The boys playground
Garden boys
The thorns
The ancient stone
In the wood
Dreary November
Ripe as harvest
Wild & drear
A warmer day
Birds hop
A boundless love
The slumbering weather
Painted wings
Peaceful windings
Adieu
Sweet brook
Roams the woodlands
One eternal green
Hovel
Pleasure unawares
Hopes golden rays
A young Rosie
Late swallows
Autumn Robin
The Wild Deer
Exquisite delight
Light in golden
Dark days
Waking like spirits
Universal Death
Oer the heath
Alehouses
Mist like moister
Heath & Plain
A heavy wet
Old green lane
The river sweeping
Living death
Pearls by the morning
Full & brimming
Gold unto gold
Silence sitteth now
Familiar fondness
Flattery findeth friends
October
Sudden
Croaking joy
Wi’ rattling sound
Plash of quiet kine
The narrow lane
Fairy bowers
Of moles… and the Enclosures
Autumn
O love is but a butterfly
Ruin of the past
Ten thousand shapes
Little trotty wagtail
A mighty spell
The rivers edge
The wilderd dell
Autumns come
Sweet witchingly woman
Dangerful rascals
Womans love
Of gipsey liberty
A sparrows life