LIFE AND REMAINS

DEDICATION

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS LIFE, LETTERS, ETC. ASYLUM POEMS:

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

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"

MAY

MEMORY

AT HIGH BEECH ASYLUM

AT NORTHAMPTON

THE APPROACHING END

CONCLUSION

ASYLUM POEMS 'TIS SPRING, MY LOVE, 'TIS SPRING

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

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 (2)

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 I

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

Title: Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"

Author: J. L. Cherry

Edition: 10

Language: English

Produced by Mark Sherwood, Delphine Lettau and Charles Aldarondo