Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old John Clare quotes, John Clare sayings, and John Clare proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
I hid my love in field and town
Till een the breeze would knock me down,
The bees seemed singing ballads oer,
The fly's bass turned a lion's roar;
And even silence found a tongue,
To haunt me all the summer long;
The riddle nature could not prove
Was nothing else but secret love.John Clare
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So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, And now the morn quite hides in smoke and haze; The place we occupy seems all the world.John Clare
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Old papers thrown away, / Old garments cast aside, / The talk of yesterday, / All things identified; / But times once torn away / No voices can recall: / The eve of New Year's Day / Left the Old Year lost to all.John Clare
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The time when daiseys bloom divine
With thy calm hours begun / And crowflowers blazing blooms are thine.John Clare
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Autumn I love thy latter end to view / In cold Novembers days so bleak and bare / When like life's dwindld thread worn nearly thro / Wi lingering pottering pace and head bleach'd bare / Thou like an old man bids the world adieu.John Clare
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All nature owns with one accord / The great and universal Lord: / The sun proclaims him through the day, / The moon when daylight drops away.John Clare
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Thy genius saw in quiet mood gilt fashions follies pass thee by.John Clare
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Envy will gnaw its heart away to see thy genius gather root.John Clare
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He talks to none but wends his silent way, / And finds a hovel at the close of day, / Or under any hedge his house is made. / He has no calling and he owns no trade.John Clare
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An old smoaked blanket arches oer his head, / A whisp of straw or stubble makes his bed. / He knows a lawless law that claims no kin / But meet and plunder on and feel no sin — John Clare
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One keeps the heart-bred villain full in sight, / The other cants and acts the hypocrite, / Smoothing the deed where law sharks set their gin / Like a coy dog to draw misfortune in.John Clare
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The ice-bound floods that still with rigour freeze / The snow clothed valley and the naked tree / These sympathising scenes my heart can please / Distress is theirs— and they resemble me.John Clare
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Here I lie, a clock-o'-clay, waiting for the time o' day.John Clare
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The frog croaks loud, and maidens dare not pass but fear the noisome toad and shun the grass.John Clare
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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.John Clare
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First-love will with the heart remain / When its hopes are all gone by; / As frail rose-blossoms still retain / Their fragrance when they die:John Clare
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I never saw so sweet a face / As that I stood before: / My heart has left its dwelling place / And can return no more.John Clare