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John Clare

The oddling bee

Poems by LoisMarch 22, 2019March 21, 2019

And daws whose heads seem powdered o’er wi’ snow

Poems by LoisMarch 11, 2019

Month of many weathers wildly comes

Poems by LoisMarch 5, 2019March 5, 2019

Huddling geese as half asleep doth round the imprisoned water creep

Poems by LoisJanuary 15, 2019

Watching the mice that squeaks below

Poems by LoisJanuary 3, 2019January 3, 2019

Withering and keen the Winter comes,

Poems by LoisJanuary 1, 2019

The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon

Writing by LoisNovember 3, 2018October 31, 2018

Harvest awakes the morning

Poems by LoisSeptember 8, 2018

Woodbines climbing oer the door in bowers

Poems by LoisJune 19, 2018June 20, 2018
Poems by LoisJune 15, 2018

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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