Cowslip bud so early peeping- Warmd by aprils hazard hours
- Oer thy head tho sunshines creeping
- Hind it threatnd temp[e]sts lower
- Trembling blossom let me bear thee
- To a better safer home
- Tho a fairer blossom wear thee
- Near a tempest there shall come
- Marys bonny breasts to charm thee
- Bosom soft as down can be
- Eyes like any suns to warm thee
- & scores of sweets unknown to me
- Ah for joys thoult there be meeting
- In a station so divine
- I'd 'most wish thats vain repeating
- Cowslip bud thy life were mineEP II 51/2Village Minstrel I 82 (1821)In the Shadows (2014)
From Helpston in rural Northamptonshire, John Clare was born in 1793. He is now regarded as the most important poet of the natural world from Britain. He wrote many poems, prose and letters about love, sex, corruption and politics, environmental and social change, poverty and folk life. Even in his 'madness', his talents were not diminished. Ronald Blythe, past President of the Clare Society, saw Clare as "... England's most articulate village voice". Clare died, aged 71, in 1864.
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