The later poems of John Clare 1837-1864 ... General editor Eric Robinson: Edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell: Associate editor Margaret Grainger |
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[My bonny Mary Ann]
My bonny Mary Ann
My winsome Mary Ann
The sweetest thing in natures plan
Is my ain true love Mary Ann
Sae bonny is her witching size
Sae pretty is her rosey face
Sae red her lips sae bright her eyes
She's mans delight in ony place
My winsome Mary Ann
The sweetest thing in natures plan
Is my ain true love Mary Ann
Sae bonny is her witching size
Sae pretty is her rosey face
Sae red her lips sae bright her eyes
She's mans delight in ony place
O the bonny Mary Ann
Slender waste & proper size
O the luvly Mary Ann
Cherry cheeks & sparkling eyes
Nay never turn those smiles away
Thy frowns will turn me crazy
Thou kingcup of the sunny may
Thou bonny April daisy
Slender waste & proper size
O the luvly Mary Ann
Cherry cheeks & sparkling eyes
Nay never turn those smiles away
Thy frowns will turn me crazy
Thou kingcup of the sunny may
Thou bonny April daisy
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My bonny Mary Ann
My charming Mary Ann
The sweetest thing in natures plan
Is my ain true love Mary Ann
The thing that I shud like the best
In natures sweetest plan
Is luv' in Islands of the blest
Wi' bonny Mary Ann
My charming Mary Ann
The sweetest thing in natures plan
Is my ain true love Mary Ann
The thing that I shud like the best
In natures sweetest plan
Is luv' in Islands of the blest
Wi' bonny Mary Ann
A cozey place with Mary Ann
Ne'er haunted by the foot o' man
But blest with natures choicest plan
Me & my bonny Mary Ann
Her cherry cheeks & proper size
Her luiks that turn frae idle man
I'll worship nature in her eyes
& ever luv' my Mary Ann
Ne'er haunted by the foot o' man
But blest with natures choicest plan
Me & my bonny Mary Ann
Her cherry cheeks & proper size
Her luiks that turn frae idle man
I'll worship nature in her eyes
& ever luv' my Mary Ann
My bonny dearest Mary Ann
Soft neck & breasted like a swan
Thy cherry cheeks aye beat the wan
My rosey bonny Mary Ann
I pu' a flower & think o' thee
I cant contrary natures plan
The sweetest flower maist dear to me
Is my ain bonny Mary Ann
Soft neck & breasted like a swan
Thy cherry cheeks aye beat the wan
My rosey bonny Mary Ann
I pu' a flower & think o' thee
I cant contrary natures plan
The sweetest flower maist dear to me
Is my ain bonny Mary Ann
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