The later poems of John Clare :: :: University of Virginia Library

The later poems of John Clare

1837-1864 ... General editor Eric Robinson: Edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell: Associate editor Margaret Grainger

Clare, John (1793-1864)

Volume I

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Volume II

KNIGHT TRANSCRIPTS VOLUME TWO

[The morning wakes dewy & sunny & light]

[In the seasons o' swallows that brings the bright sun]

[Come away come away to the wild wood]

SCOTLAND

HERE'S TO AULD SCOTLAND

COME! COME IN THE FIELDS

MARY BOYFIELD

SONG

BY CLARE—TO BE PLACED AT THE BACK OF HIS PORTRATE PRESENTED TO INSKIP BY MRS. PRICHARD

LITTLE TROTTY WAGTAIL

THE SWALLOW

THE FOREST MAID

BONNY LASSIE O

OH COME TO ME AT EVEN!

HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS

MY SWEET LUCY GREY

MY OWN SWEET SALLY GEE

SWEET MARY O' THE PLOUGH

BANTRY BAY

[T'was in the midst of June]

MY LOVE IN DISHABILLE

AMONG THE GREEN BUSHES

PEGGY WAS A YOUNG THING

FAIR MARIA

HOW CALM IS THE EVENING

MY LOVE SHE IS A MODEST GIRL

THE ROSE IN FULL BEARING

MY LOVE SHE IS BONNY

FAREWELL TO THE CORNFIELD

BONNY MARY O

OH CARADORA

THERE'S NOTHING SO SWEET

MY LOVE SHE'S BONNY

FAREWELL

THE EVENING COMES

WHEN I MEET A BONNY LASSIE

I MET A PLEASANT MAIDEN

I MAYBE CANNA SING

BEAUTIFUL MARIA

'TIS NOW THE HIGHT O' SUMMER

HOW BEAUTIFUL THE MORNING

MANY DEAR THINGS

THE GARDENERS BONNY DAUGHTER

WILL YOU EVER LOVE ME DEAREST?

WHEN THE SHEEP ARE IN THE PEN

LOVELY ALICE GREY

THE EVENING IS FOR LOVE

I'LL GANG AND SEE JESSY AGAIN

[The winter winnowed chill And fast came down the snow]

HER LOVE IS ALL TO ME

MY BONNY JANE

THE MILKING O' THE KYE

I MET HER IN THE GLOAMING

COME NANNY DEAR NEAR ME

BONNY LASSIE O!

CAN I FORGET THOSE LARGE BLUE EYES

THE WINDS BLOW SOFTLY

THEE I LOVE BONNY LASSIE O

HOUSE OR WINDOW FLIES

[The upward look and ever anxious eye]

OH! BEAUTIFUL THE WIND COMES

THE LADYBIRD

OH! BONNY IS THE COUNTRY

A HEALTH TO ALL PRETTY GIRLS

GLORIA IN EXCELSIS

FRAGMENT

MARY THE MAID O' THE PLOUGH

SUMMERS IN ITS GLORY NOW

MY BONNY SUE

MY BONNY YOUNG ANNE MARIA

THE WALK LAST SABBATH DAY

I LOVED THE LASSES DEARLY

WHEN THE SLOE FLOWER'S IN BLOOM

THE BALM O CARE IS WOMAN

I DREAM'T OF ROBIN

THE DAISY BUTTON TIPP'D WI' DEW

WILL YE GANG A WEEDING DEAR

'TWAS IN A SUMMER'S MORNING

OH ONCE I HAD A TRUE LOVE

AGAIN I'LL TAKE MY INK AND PEN

SHE'S LOVELY IN HER PERSON

OH PHOEBE LOVELY PHOEBE

PRIMROSES IN THE WOOD APPEAR

VIOLETS AND PRIMROSES

THE SUN IS SETTING

THE DAYS OF APRIL

THE RETURN OF SPRING

MY LOVE SHE WAS A GIPSEY O

THE CORN CRAIKS RISPY SONG

SWEET SOPHY'S EYES ARE CHRYSTALS CLEAR

THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE RUSHES

OH SWEET IS THE SOUND

ANGEL SHE SEEM'D AND WOMAN TOO

THE FLOWER OF OUR VALLEY

I'LL LOVE THEE NO MORE

TIS PLEASANT TO WALK

THERE IS A VOICE I LOVE TO HEAR

WHERE LOVE ARE YOU?

I CLASP MY LOVELY GIRL

BONNY JENNY O

AUTUMN

YOUNG BESSY BRIGHT AND FAIR

MAID O' THE WILDERNESS

COME SOFTLY MY DARLING

MARY BATEMAN

THE DARK DAYS OF AUTUMN

PEGGY'S THE LADY O' THE HALL

WINTER

THE SCOTCH AND IRISH GIRL

I LOVE THE BLUE VIOLET

OH THERE IS A VALLEY

THE NIGHT IS STILL

THE MILKMAID IS BONNY AND FAIR

THE MAIDEN CLAD WI' CLAY

THE PEARTREE LANE

THE SWEETEST WOMAN THERE

I LOVE HER JUST THE SAME AS EVER

THE PRIMROSE PEEPS

OH BONNY ANN WAS FAIR TO SEE

OH THE DAY IT WAS BLACK

JUST NOW I MET A MAIDEN

THE EVENING WAS LOVELY

AMELIA THOU MAID O' MY BOSOM

IT IS LOVE!

ADIEU TO GREEN MEADOWS

MY SWEET BONNY ANN

HELLEN BONNY HELLEN

REMEMBER THEE LOVE? YES!

'TWAS ON AN APRIL MORNING

THE SHARP WIND SHIVERS

ONE SUMMER SUNDAY MORNING

HOW BEAUTIFUL THE SUN WENT DOWN

THE CROW SAT ON THE WILLOW

OH COMELY IS THE ROSY BRERE

IN THE FIELD—

OH COME TO MY ARMS

IN GREEN GRASSY PLACES

IT WAS A PLEASANT EVENING

COY MAIDENS O' DRYSAIL

THE SPRING COMES AGAIN LOVE

THE PEASANT POET

AND MUST WE PART?

THEN SHALL WE MEET AGAIN

WE PASSED BY GREEN CLOSES

THEE AND THEE ONLY

MY LOVED ONE MY OWN

WHERE THE HAZELS HING LOVE

REMEMBER DEAR MARY

CAN YE LOVE MY DEAR LASSIE

MARY O THE WEST

I PULL'D A WILD ROSE FRA THE BRERE

BONNY MARY LET US GO

‘A WIMPERING BROOK’

‘THE LADY O THE WEST’

[By mud pools see a gnat striped nameless flye]

‘THE WIND SOTHERS SOFTLY’

‘I LOVE THE FLOWERS O SPRING’

‘BONNY DARK EYED SUSAN’

‘BONNY RACHEL HIVES’

‘I'VE GOT AN OLD CRUMMACHING COW’

‘OH BONNY JANE IS HANDSOME’

‘HOW SWEET SINGS THE THRUSH’

‘THE MILKING MAID’

‘THE BONNY GIPSEY’

‘SHE WAS A FAIR AND BONNY GIRL’

‘I LOVE THE MOSSY FOUNTAIN’

‘SWEET MARY OGILVIE’

LINES ON ‘COWPER’

‘BEAUTY SO DIVINE’

[Of thee I keep dreaming still thee]

[I've waited long lonely but hither she comes]

[She is a sweet and bonny thing]

[The Even comes & the Crow flies low]

[I wandered forth to view the streams]

[How cheerful along the gay mead]

[Say not when all your scanty stores afford]

[Know God is every where]

‘BIRD O THE WILDERNESS’

‘WILT THOU THINK O' ME?’

‘HER MAIDEN NAME IS ELEANOR’

‘SWEET LUCY O NORTHAMPTON’

‘THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE TIME’

‘COME THE BACK WAY DEAR’

‘THEY LOVE NOT ME BECAUSE I'M POOR’

[The heart of Midlothian is nearly my own]

[How beautiful the hazy morning seems!]

FRAGMENTARY

[‘Such is the Almighty Will’ so spake the honest brow]

[The sedges sighing by the meadows stream]

[I wish the king cups they would come again]

I'LL DREAM ABOUT THE DAYS TO COME

HE LOVED ME BEST O' ONY'—

SHE IS A WINSOME YOUNG THING

OH THE MAIDEN WAS COY

SHE'S CHASTE AND BEAUTIFULLY FAIR

SWEET IS THE WHISPER

THE SAILORS RETURN

THE MAIDS O' OULD IRELAND

RATHER TOO COOL

NO USE IN TRYING

BIRDS: WHY ARE YE SILENT?

THE YELLOWHAMMER

HIM WHO LOVES THEE BEST

PRIMROSES

MEET ME MY OWN PRETTY DOVE!

MEET ME IN THE GREEN GLEN

'TWAS WI' SADNESS O' HEART

ADIEU

PERPLEXITIES

THE MOSSY GREEN LANE

THE PITCHER WITHOUT EAR

DRESS DOES NOT MAKE THE MAN

IN BEAUTY THERE IS JOY

EARLY MORNING

SPRING

ACROSTIC

CAN YE LOVE LOWLAND LASSIE

WILD FLOWERS

OH WHITHER FAIR MAIDEN

A RAPHSODY

THE GREEN WOOD SIDE

THE RAWK O' THE AUTUMN

THE SONGS OF OUR LAND

I'LL GANG AND SEE PHEMIE

COME IN THE MORNING

OH WHAT SO SWEET AS LOVE

AN ANECDOTE OF LOVE

FARE THEE WELL

[Language has not the power to speak what love indites]

THE MAID I LOVE

ROSES

I WISH I WAS A LITTLE BIRD

DO YE LIKE THE HEATH LASSIE

MY BEAUTIFUL NANNY

COME HITHER ISABEL

WOMAN HAD WE NEVER MET

WRITTEN IN PRISON

SONNET

THE MAPLE TREE

MY AIN HEART LOVE IS THINE

THE SHEPHERDS DAUGHTER

GOOD E'ENIN TO YE LASSIE

SWEETLY COMES THE GRASSY SUMMER

MY YOUNG JOHN HIGHLAND MAN

COME SIT WI THE BIRDIES

ALONG THE WILLOW BANKS OF NEN

THE CHIMING BELLS

AN ANGEL IN THE SUMMER HOURS

HERES A HEALTH TO SCOTLAND

PRETTY KATE KEARNEY

MARY HELEN FROM THE HILL

THE DEPARTED

LOST AS STRANGERS AS WE PASS

JOHN THE CARPENTER

BESSY MACKAY

JOCKEY SAID TO JENNY

WHY DONT YE LOVE JANE

LOVE MAKES US BAITH AGREE

ID GAZE MY SOUL ON THEE

WE'LL WANDER THROUGH THE HEATHER

SHE LOO'S ME BEST O' ANY

HAD WE NE'ER LOVED

AMANG THE FLOWERS O' MAY

LUCY MY DEAR

FLY TO THE FOREST MY SUSAN

[The daisey is tipped wi the dew]

BORN UPON AN ANGELS BREAST

SONG OF LOVE TO JEANNIE

BONNY LASSIE DINNA LEAVE ME

FLOW ON WINDING RIVER

OH SUSAN MY DEAREST

WHAT BEAUTIES THE SUMMER DISCLOSES

I LOVE PALE PRIMROSES

[The yellow leaves are falling round the bushes every one]

WE STOOD BENEATH THE HAZEL SHADE

THERE'S LOVE IN HER SILENT LOOKS

THE SILVER MOON THAT LIGHTS THE WAY

GO NOT NIGH HER DWELLING

COME LOVELY MARY

COME HELEN MY RARE ONE

MIRTHFUL SUMMERS COME AT LAST

ABOVE THE BROOK THE MIDGE'S PLAY

BY YON BURNSIDE

THE WINDS FAN SO SWEET

BEAN BLOSSOMS

[The blossomed bean I love to see]

ROLL THEE IN MY TARTAN PLAIDIE

LASSIE SAY WILL YE GO

I AM WAE AND WEARY SISTER

I SPEAK IN LOW CALM BREATHING WHISPERS

I LIVE AND LOVE AS OTHERS DO

FRAGMENT

HOW CAN I FORGET

I'LL MEET THEE ON THE HEATHER

ENSLAVED IN BONDS

SONNET TO T. INSKIP STAFFORD

COME MARY ANN

A RAMBLE BY THE RIVER SIDE

MY OWN SWEET GIPSEY GIRL

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‘THEY LOVE NOT ME BECAUSE I'M POOR’

They loo na me because I'm poor I' woolen hoes and clouted shoes
For poverty there's little cure But war it ever mine to chuse
I'd chuse the maid i' russet gown And loo's simplicity
Though finer roses bluim in town The kintra maid for me

And I myself wad be na mair Then on[l]ie what I am
The [OMITTED] mans complaint is sair His breeding na' but sham
Wha' ever tuck me for a knave Wud mar opinions sarely
I've often made a foemans grave And fought for Scotlands Charley

And dear I loo the land o' bruim And the throble bluiming rarely
And when I change my hose and shoon Pray wha's the Man but Charley
Dear Scotland is my highland home When troubles press me sairly
If they're auld Scotlands bluid and bane I'm suin auld Scotlands Charley

When highland clans and lowland Men Git up and gang the gither
I'll meet them i' the cozey glen And show the princes feather
I'll meet 'em for auld scotlands sake I' rank and file set fairly
And when the Lan's at the last stake Pray wha's mysell but Charlie