University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
The early poems of John Clare

1804-1822: General editor Eric Robinson: Edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell: Associate editor Margaret Grainger

expand sectionI. 
expand sectionII. 

A MAIDEN-HAID

A maiden head the virgins trouble
Is well compared to a bubble
On a navigable river
—Soon as touch'd 't'is gone for ever