'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(Unpublished elsewhere)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)

Haymaking...

[Image: Peter De Wint, a contemporary and friend of Clare]

Fair was the morn and Summer in its prime
For whats more lovlier than hay-making time

from "A Hunt for Dobin"
EP I 70

The power of Summer...

"The oak's slow-opening leaf of deepening hue
Bespoke the power of Summer once again"

EP I 521

A morning view...

[The image by Anne Lee is of a window in Clare's Cottage]

"My chamber window should oer look the east that in delicious views my eyes might feast" 

Pet MS C2 p63

Health...

Tho health from exercise is said to spring
Foolhardy toil health will never bring

Nor MS 1 p27