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John Clare – the Shepherds Calendar
The shepherd boy
The Shepherd’s Calendar And sky larks meet the sun wi flittering wing Soon as the morning opes its brightning eye Large clouds of sturnels blacken thro the sky From oizer holts about the rushy fen And reedshaw borders by the river Nen And wild geese regiments now agen repair To the wet bosom of broad […]
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Large bindweed bells wild hop and streak’d woodbine
This poem is two hundred years old, but John Clare captures the month of June. We may mostly live in towns and cities, and much of the countryside is manged and controlled with little wildness left, but going out for a walk there are still pockets of ‘bindweed bells wild hop and streakd woodbine’ which […]
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Lois Elsden 