Life and Remains of John Clare, The "Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
by John Clare
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This work is in the public domain and available from http://www.gutenberg.orgContents:Life and LettersAsylum PoemsMiscellaneous PoemsProse FragmentsOld BalladsIncludes 89 poems by John Clare and 11 'old ballads' as recalled by him.The following is from the introduction:Shortly after Clare's death his literary "Remains" came into the possession of Mr. Taylor, of Northampton. The MSS included several hundreds of hitherto unpublished poems, more than a thousand letters addressed to Clare by his friends and contemporaries, (among them Charles Lamb, James Montgomery, Bloomfield, Sir Chas. A. Elton,...
Chapters (156)
- LIFE AND REMAINS
- DEDICATION
- INTRODUCTION
- CONTENTS
- LIFE, LETTERS, ETC. ASYLUM POEMS:
- MISCELLANEOUS POEMS:
- PROSE FRAGMENTS:
- OLD SONGS AND BALLADS:
- GLOSSARY
- LIFE, LETTERS, ETC.
- LOCAL ATTACHMENTS
- GRANNY BAINS
- SUMMER LABOURS, WINTER STUDY
- HIS EARLIEST RHYMES
- THE POET TO THE PUBLIC
- A FRIEND IN NEED
- "HEARKEN UNTO A VERSER"
- EXAMPLES
- WHAT IS LIFE?
- A LION AT LAST
- FIRST VISIT TO LONDON
- "A SOUL FEMININE SALUTETH US"
- A PRIVATE SUBSCRIPTION
- NEWS OF KEATS
- "THE VILLAGE MINSTREL"
- I LOVE THEE, SWEET MARY.
- A MODEST AMBITION THWARTED
- "LORD, WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE!"
- LETTER FROM CHARLES LAMB
- THE REVEREND CARY
- LETTERS FROM MRS EMMERSON
- FRIENDS AT "THE PALACE"
- ANOTHER VISIT TO LONDON
- ALLAN CUNNINGHAM
- GEORGE DARLEY
- CLARE'S DIARY
- CORRESPONDENCE WITH JAMES MONTGOMERY
- PUBLICATION OF "THE SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR"
- FAILURE OF "THE SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR"
- THE POET TURNED PEDLAR
- VISIT TO BOSTON
- REMOVAL TO NORTHBOROUGH
- "THE RURAL MUSE"
- AUTUMN
- MAY
- MEMORY
- AT HIGH BEECH ASYLUM
- AT NORTHAMPTON
- THE APPROACHING END
- CONCLUSION
- ASYLUM POEMS
- LOVE OF NATURE
- THE INVITATION
- TO THE LARK
- GRAVES OF INFANTS
- BONNIE LASSIE O!
- PHOEBE OF THE SCOTTISH GLEN
- MAID OF THE WILDERNESS
- MARY BATEMAN
- WHEN SHALL WE MEET AGAIN?
- THE LOVER'S INVITATION
- NATURE'S DARLING
- I'LL DREAM UPON THE DAYS TO COME
- TO ISABEL
- THE SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER
- LASSIE, I LOVE THEE
- THE GIPSY LASS
- AT THE FOOT OF CLIFFORD HILL
- TO MY WIFE—A VALENTINE
- MY TRUE LOVE IS A SAILOR
- THE SAILOR'S RETURN
- BIRDS, WHY ARE YE SILENT?
- MEET ME TO-NIGHT
- YOUNG JENNY
- ADIEU!
- MY BONNY ALICE AND HER PITCHER
- THE MAIDEN I LOVE
- TO JENNY LIND
- LITTLE TROTTY WAGTAIL
- THE FOREST MAID
- BONNY MARY O!
- LOVE'S EMBLEM
- THE MORNING WALK
- TO MISS C…..
- I PLUCK SUMMER BLOSSOMS
- THE MARCH NOSEGAY
- LEFT ALONE
- TO MARY
- THE NIGHTINGALE
- THE DYING CHILD
- MARY
- CLOCK-A-CLAY
- SPRING
- EVENING
- THE SWALLOW
- JOCKEY AND JENNY
- THE FACE I LOVE SO DEARLY
- THE BEANFIELD
- WHERE SHE TOLD HER LOVE
- MILKING O' THE KYE
- A LOVER'S VOWS
- THE FALL OF THE YEAR
- AUTUMN
- EARLY LOVE
- EVENING
- A VALENTINE
- TO LIBERTY
- APPROACH OF WINTER
- MARY DOVE
- SPRING'S NOSEGAY
- THE LOST ONE
- THE TELL-TALE FLOWERS
- THE SKYLARK
- POETS LOVE NATURE—A FRAGMENT
- HOME YEARNINGS
- MY SCHOOLBOY DAYS
- LOVE LIVES BEYOND THE TOMB
- MY EARLY HOME
- MARY APPLEBY
- AMONG THE GREEN BUSHES
- TO JANE
- THE OLD YEAR
- MISCELLANEOUS POEMS MAYING; OR, A LOVE OF FLOWERS
- TWO SONNETS TO MARY
- THE VANITIES OF LIFE
- MARCH
- THE OLD MAN'S LAMENT
- SPRING FLOWERS
- POEM ON DEATH
- THE WANTON CHLOE—A PASTORAL
- THE OLD SHEPHERD
- TO A ROSEBUD IN HUMBLE LIFE
- THE TRIUMPHS OF TIME
- TO JOHN MILTON
- THE BIRDS AND ST. VALENTINE
- FAREWELL AND DEFIANCE TO LOVE
- THE GIPSY'S SONG
- PEGGY BAND
- TO A BROOK
- PROSE FRAGMENTS A CONFESSION OF FAITH
- ESSAY ON POPULARITY
- SCRAPS FOR AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM AND FASHION
- SCRAPS FOR AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM
- OLD SONGS AND BALLADS
- ADIEU TO MY FALSE LOVE FOREVER
- O SILLY LOVE! O CUNNING LOVE!
- NOBODY COMETH TO WOO
- FARE THEE WELL
- MARY NEELE
- LOVE SCORNED BY PRIDE
- BETRAYED
- THE MAIDEN'S WELCOME
- THE FALSE KNIGHT'S TRAGEDY
- LOVE'S RIDDLE
- THE BANKS OF IVORY
- ENDNOTES
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