Ladybird ladybird where art thou flown
Thou wert here in the morning before the sun shone
Just now up the bowl o' the damson tree
You passed the gold lichen & got to the grey
Ladybird ladybird where can you be
You climb up the tulips & then fly away
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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