Bonny March

The bonny March morning is beaming

   In mingled crimson & grey

White clouds are streaking and creaming

   The sky till the noon of the day

The fir deal looks darker and greener

   And grass hills below look the same

The air all about is serener

   The birds less familliar and tame

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Kine

Of poesy full many charms are thine

Green vales & tinkling brooks & pastures thronged with kine

& thy old woods as yet can claim & call

Thy native oak thy own that proudly towers

Boast of thy nation & the dread of all

& though the slighting sun & chilly showers

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Secluded haunts

Trees sheltering round it hide returning rooks
& twittering swallows seek its chimney nooks
In peace the sparrow chirps its joyous calls
& takes the feather to the crevisd walls
Nor fails the harmless robin & the wren
To seek such sweet secluded haunts agen
Beneath the eaves the martins still repair
& yearly build their mortard dwelling there

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Spring

Welcome gentle breathing spring
Now the birds begin to sing
Now the Swelling shade is seen
Putting forth its tender green
While the Suns extended way
Sweetly shows the lengthend day
O delightful Season hail
May my footsteps never fail
When Ive time to trample where
All thy beauties reappear

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Childhood

The primrose looks happy in every field
In strange woods the violets their odours will yield
& flowers in the sunshine all brightly arrayed
Will bloom just as fresh & as sweet in the shade
But the wild flowers that bring me most joy & content
Are the blossoms that glow where my childhood was spent

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Clouds

Clouds rack & drive before the wind 
In shapes & forms of every kind 
Like waves that rise without the roars 
& rocks that guard untrodden shores 
Now castles pass majestic bye 
& ships in peaceful havens lie 
These gone ten thousand shapes ensue 
For ever beautiful & new

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Chapbooks

Well here they are, ‘Mary Joyce’ to join ‘Patty’ to complete my 30 book John Clare series. I started the series with ‘Drinking with John Clare’ in 2017, so 8 years later we have the completion. My overall aim? Simply to provide inexpensive, but high-quality paperbacks covering the large variety of subjects Clare wrote extensively about. It’s been fun.  The cost? £7 incl (postage now costs £2.65)!  if you are not in the UK I can send you a pdf (Kindle) copy for a donation to a charity of your choice of a similar amount.

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