The early poems of John Clare 1804-1822: General editor Eric Robinson: Edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell: Associate editor Margaret Grainger |
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[When Chloe's gone then fancy lays]
When Chloe's gone then fancy lays
Her cunning schemes a thousand ways
And what I might have done
And (only charm for absent pain)
When ere she comes this way again
How Chloe may be won
Her cunning schemes a thousand ways
And what I might have done
And (only charm for absent pain)
When ere she comes this way again
How Chloe may be won
But when alas the maiden's nigh
The languid look the half-sown sigh
Is all that finds a way
For plans and schemes are all destroy'd
While fancy flies an hopeles void
And leaves me naught to say
The languid look the half-sown sigh
Is all that finds a way
For plans and schemes are all destroy'd
While fancy flies an hopeles void
And leaves me naught to say
| The early poems of John Clare | |