Yearning...

The Tree the Wood the Cot & distant Spire
I would search after with a fond desire


EP I 43 

Resignation...



"For joys beginnings have one tale to tell
& bring their end a heart ache & farewell" 

Pet MS B4 p59
'In the Shadows' (Arbour Editions 2015)

Sunrise...

"Morning awakes sublime -- glad earth and sky"

MP IV 276

Life...


"If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs"

Quoted in the Tibble's 'John Clare a Life' (1932)
... from a letter to Mrs. Emmerson (10th August 1823)

'Study' ... from "The Wish"

The other hours I'd spend in letterd ease
To read or study just as that might please


Pet MS C2 p63-6
EP I 46-50
(Unpublished elsewhere)

[To keep me company in the Clare archive in Peterborough this week]

True Poesy...

[Image: Anthony Lewis]

"True poesy is not in words
But in images that thoughts express"

MP III 581

Promises in Love...


















[Image : Anne Lee]

"Promises In Love Are Never Sure"

Child Harold (line 1096)