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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)

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KNIGHT TRANSCRIPTS VOLUME TWO

THE SWEET-BRERE

THE WOODLAND STROLL

THE WALK WITH LOVE

TO MISS D.W.—

[The morning wakes dewy & sunny & light]

THE MILLERS DAUGHTER

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

[Come away come away to the wild wood]

HERE'S TO AULD SCOTLAND

COME! COME IN THE FIELDS

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

MARY FEATHERSTONE

LITTLE TROTTY WAGTAIL

THE FOREST MAID

OH COME TO ME AT EVEN!

HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS

MY SWEET LUCY GREY

MY OWN SWEET SALLY GEE

SWEET MARY O' THE PLOUGH

[T'was in the midst of June]

MY LOVE IN DISHABILLE

AMONG THE GREEN BUSHES

PEGGY WAS A YOUNG THING

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

THERE'S NOTHING SO SWEET

MY LOVE SHE'S BONNY

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

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 EVENING WAS WET

THE SNOWDEN MAID

THE SHIP CHARLOTTE

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

OH! BONNY IS THE COUNTRY

A HEALTH TO ALL PRETTY GIRLS

GLORIA IN EXCELSIS

MARY THE MAID O' THE PLOUGH

SUMMERS IN ITS GLORY NOW

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

SWEET ISABELLA COME

THOSE EYES OF BLUE

WHEN I WAS YOUNG

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

YOUNG BESSY BRIGHT AND FAIR

MAID O' THE WILDERNESS

COME SOFTLY MY DARLING

THE DARK DAYS OF AUTUMN

PEGGY'S THE LADY O' THE HALL

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

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!]

[‘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]

SONG. ‘BONNY MARY’—

LINES—TO HELEN MARIA

SWEET JENNY JONES

I'LL DREAM ABOUT THE DAYS TO COME

HE LOVED ME BEST O' ONY'—

SHE IS A WINSOME YOUNG THING

THE BONNY MAPLE TREE

HAIL DREARY NOVEMBER

THE NURSERY GARDEN

MY BEAUTIFUL RUTH

THE WINTERS COME

ARABELLA SEYMOUR

THE VILLAGE BELLE

A HAPPY SPRING NIGHT

THE FLOW'RETS O' GOD

SWEET MARY BEAL

BONNY YOUNG SUSAN

OH THE MAIDEN WAS COY

KATE O' KILLARNEY

A SAD CATASTROPHE

THE GOWN O' GREEN

MARY COLLINGWOOD

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

MEET ME MY OWN PRETTY DOVE!

MEET ME IN THE GREEN GLEN

THE FITTING PLACE

MEET ME TO NIGHT

ANGELS OF EARTH

COME AS IT MAY COME

'TWAS WI' SADNESS O' HEART

THE MOSSY GREEN LANE

THE PITCHER WITHOUT EAR

DRESS DOES NOT MAKE THE MAN

MY EVERLASTING LOVE

MY PEERLESS ADELAIDE

COUNTRY COURTSHIP

COME BONNY LUCY JANE

IN BEAUTY THERE IS JOY

CAN YE LOVE LOWLAND LASSIE

OH WHITHER FAIR MAIDEN

THE GREEN WOOD SIDE

THE RAWK O' THE AUTUMN

THE SONGS OF OUR LAND

WILL YE GANG MARY

LOVELY ELLEN

I'LL GANG AND SEE PHEMIE

COME IN THE MORNING

OH WHAT SO SWEET AS LOVE

AN ANECDOTE OF LOVE

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

THE MAID I LOVE

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

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

LOST AS STRANGERS AS WE PASS

JOHN THE CARPENTER

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

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

THY BONNY SMILE

LASSIE I LOVE THEE

MY MINNIE TOLD ALL

MY LOVE IS FAIR

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

[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

HOW CAN I FORGET

I'LL MEET THEE ON THE HEATHER

ENSLAVED IN BONDS

SONNET TO T. INSKIP STAFFORD

A RAMBLE BY THE RIVER SIDE

MY OWN SWEET GIPSEY GIRL

THE LAST SIX POEMS

POEMS FROM BAKER'S GLOSSARY

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LOVELY ELLEN

Happy Ellen near thy dwelling
True love wanders night and day
Nothing fearing ever hearing
What my charmer has to say

Can I please thee do I tease thee
Happy Ellen prythee say
Near thy dwelling Haughty Ellen
Fancy wanders every day

At the windows like a cinder
Burning with too hot desire
I am speaking true love seeking
To quench the flame and damp the fire

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Lovely Ellen near thy dwelling
I love sick wander night and day
On thy bosom grief dispeling
Every sorrow fades away