Here is one of Lady Clementina Hawarden's daughters, the photo taken in around 1860 - I have coupled with a Clare sonnet published in our third handmade limited edition volume "In the Shadows".
Hopes sun shines sweet but who of hopes are proud
To see how soon it meeteth with a cloud
How many hopes & memorys went with thee
That forwerd looked to better destiny
Song seems not worth the muses care
Unless to grace it womans love be there
& fame is but a shadow crowned with [ ]
Without the cheering sun of womans grace
When thy young bosom at the tales it heard
Heavd up & panted like a timid bird
Thy splendid beauty blushed upon the sight
Like sudden frenzy of unlooked for flight
Thou haven of my trouble when I see
That lovely face the show is past with me
A discovery from the Clare Archive in Peterborough
by Professor Eric Robinson and Roger Rowe
Any thoughts on the missing word?
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