John Clare Weblog

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.

The Orchis

I saw it in the evening sun & in the morning dew
I saw't o evenings i' the week Each sunday i' the year
& purposed journeys came to seek When orchis flowers appear
O they are clods that never seek For true loves living powers
When beans grow up as green as leeks I hunt the Orchis flower

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