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John Clare: The Midsummer Cushion

Edited by R. K. R. Thornton & Anne Tibble

Clare, John (1793-1864)

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THE MIDSUMMER CUSHION

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TO THE RURAL MUSE

TO THE RURAL MUSE

PLEASURES OF SPRING

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GOING TO THE FAIR

ADVENTURES OF A GRASSHOPPER

THE BIRDS & ST VALENTINE

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HELPSTONE STATUTE

OUR OWN FIRESIDE

NATURES HYMN TO THE DEITY

IMPULSES OF SPRING

ON SEEING A SKULL ON COWPER GREEN

PURSUITS AFTER HAPPINESS

THOUGHTS IN A CHURCHYARD

THE VANITYS OF LIFE

TO --- ON MAY MORNING

ON A CHILD KILLED BY LIGHTNING

THE AUTUMN ROBIN

ON THE MEMORY OF THE HONOURABLE LADY ---

SHADOWS OF TASTE

STANZAS ON A CHILD

TO THE MEMORY OF AN ADMIRAL

FAREWELL TO LOVE

THE VILLAGE DOCTRESS

THE ANNIVERSARY

EMMONSALES HEATH

VALENTINE TO MARY

THE HOLIDAY WALK

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NATURES MELODYS

THE MUSIC OF THE STORM

THE SUMMER SHOWER

THE OLD SHEPHERD

SPORT IN THE MEADOWS

THE NIGHTINGALES NEST

VASCO NUNEZ ON HIS ENEMIES

THE MOORHENS NEST

THE YELLOW WAGTAILS NEST

TO **** ON NEWYEARS DAY

ON SEEING A BEAUTIFUL STATUE

THE SUMMER GONE

THE PROGRESS OF RYHME

THE YELLOWHAMMERS NEST

THE PETTICHAPS NEST

THE EVENING STAR

THE ETERNITY OF NATURE

THE ROBINS NEST

THE EVERGREEN ROSE

THE SHEPHERDS LODGE

THE PRIMROSE BANK

THE SKY LARK LEAVING HER NEST

THE MEADOW GRASS

THE WOODPIEGONS NEST

THE RAVENS NEST

ON VISITING A FAVOURITE PLACE

ON SEEING SOME MOSS IN FLOWER EARLY IN SPRING

WALKS IN THE WOODS

A BEAUTIFUL SUNSET IN NOVEMBER

RYHMES IN THE MEADOWS

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BALLADS & SONGS

THE SHEPHERDS SONG

THE MOTHERS ADVICE

FIRST LOVES RECOLLECTIONS

THE MAID OF THE HALL

THE MILKING HOUR

THE OLD MANS SONG

BALLAD—THE BACKWARD SPRING

THE GIPSEY SONG

THE HOMELESS EMIGRANTS SONG

THE SHEPHERDS LAMENT

THE TOPERS RANT

THE INCONSTANT SHEPHERD

NELSON & THE NILE

LOVE OF THE FIELDS

THE BOUNTY OF PROVIDENCE

THE MAIDENS COMPLAINT

THE CELLAR DOOR

A WORLD FOR LOVE

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THE VILLAGE BOY

EVENING SCHOOLBOYS

SEDGE BIRDS NEST

THE SHEPHERDS TREE

THE SHEPHERD BOY

ON SEEING THE BUST OF THE PRINCESS VICTORIA BY BEHNES

EVENING PASTIME

A SPRING MORNING

TO A FRIEND—IN ILLNESS

TO A YOUNG LADY

A PLEASANT PLACE

DEATH OF BEAUTY

TO THE MEMORY OF BLOOMFIELD

THE MARCH NIGHTINGALE

THE THRUSHES NEST

THE BEANS IN BLOSSOM

THE SHEPHERDS FIRE

A LIVING PICTURE

TO CHARLES LAMB

MORNING PLEASURES

STEPPING STONES

THE GARDEN BENCH

PLEASANT PLACES

THE HAIL STORM IN JUNE 1831

ETERNITY OF TIME

THE POESY OF FLOWERS

THE FAIREY RINGS

THE MORNING WIND

WOOD PICTURES IN WINTER

WOOD PICTURES IN SUMMER

WOOD PICTURES IN SPRING

A WOODLAND SEAT

THE DINNER IN THE FIELDS

THE MILKING SHED

THE BREATH OF MORNING

PLEASURES OF FANCY

THE TRUTH OF TIME

THE FOUNTAIN OF HOPE

EVENING PRIMROSE

HOME PICTURES IN MAY

CARLESS RAMBLES

THE WRYNECKS NEST

THE WHEAT RIPENING

THE HAPPINESS OF IGNORANCE

TO CHARLES LAMB ON HIS ESSAYS

FORREST FLOWERS

NOTHINGNESS OF LIFE

THE INSTINCT OF HOPE

ROUND OAK SPRING

THE MAJIC OF BEAUTY

THE FEAR OF FLOWERS

THE HEAT OF NOON

EMMONSAILS HEATH IN WINTER

THE FIRETAILS NEST

MONARCHY OF NATURE

THE WRYNECKS NEST

FIRST SIGHT OF SPRING

COLOURS OF AUTUMN

THE HOLLOW TREE

THE FERN OWLS NEST

PASTORAL LIBERTY

THE MILKMAIDS SONG

THE CLUMP OF FERN

A AUTUMN MORNING

TWILIGHT IN SUMMER

FIELD THOUGHTS

SUMMER HAPPINESS

MOWERS DINNER HOUR

COTTAGE COMFORT

MEADOW BUTTERFLYES

THE WOODLARKS NEST

A SEAT IN THE MEADOWS

UNIVERSAL GOODNESS

PARTRIDGE COVEYS

ON SEEING TWO SWALLOWS LATE IN OCTOBER

THE SPINDLE TREE

LABOURS LEISURE

MIST IN THE MEADOWS

SIGNS OF WINTER

THE HEDGE WOODBINE

HAPPINESS OF EVENING

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FIELD THOUGHTS

Field thoughts to me are happiness & joy
Where I can lye upon the pleasant grass
Or track some little path & so employ
My mind in trifles pausing as I pass
The little wild flower clumps by nothing nurst
But dews & sunshine & impartial rain
& welcomly to quench my summer thirst
I bend me by the flaggy dyke to gain
Dewberrys so delicious to the taste
& then I wind the flag fringed meadow lake
& mark the pike plunge with unusual haste
Through water weeds & many a circle make
While bursts of happiness from heaven fall
There all have hopes here fields are free for all