John Clare Quotes

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• Wildness is my suiting scene.
• Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.
• Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news…
• Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For…
• I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my…
• I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes,…
• Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the…
• Ah, words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away...
• I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down
• I long for scenes where man has never trod; A place where woman never smil'd or wept; There to abide with my creator, God, And…
• He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.
• And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.
• He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.
• I had a variety of minds about me and all of them unsettled.
• Here lies Captain Ernest Bloomfield Accidentally shot by his Orderly, March 2nd, 1789 Well done, thou good and faithful servant

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