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Life and Remains of John Clare

by John Clare

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  1. 1Epigraph — Dedication
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3Old Songs and Ballads
  4. 4Life, Letters, etc.
  5. 5Local Attachments
  6. 6Granny Bains
  7. 7Summer Labours, Winter Study
  8. 8His Earliest Rhymes
  9. 9The Poet to the Public
  10. 10A Friend in Need
  11. 11“Hearken Unto a Verser”
  12. 12Examples
  13. 13A Lion at Last
  14. 14First Visit to London
  15. 15“A Soul Feminine Saluteth Us”
  16. 16A Private Subscription
  17. 17News of Keats
  18. 18I Love Thee, Sweet Mary
  19. 19A Modest Ambition Thwarted
  20. 20“Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be!”
  21. 21Letter From Charles Lamb
  22. 22The Reverend Cary
  23. 23Letters From Mrs Emmerson
  24. 24Friends at “The Palace”
  25. 25Another Visit to London
  26. 26Allan Cunningham
  27. 27Allan Cunningham.” — George Darley
  28. 28George Darley.” — Clare’s Diary
  29. 29Correspondence With James Montgomery
  30. 30Publication of “The Shepherd’s Calendar”
  31. 31Failure of “The Shepherd’s Calendar”
  32. 32The Poet Turned Pedlar
  33. 33Visit to Boston
  34. 34Removal to Northborough
  35. 35May
  36. 36Memory
  37. 37At High Beech Asylum
  38. 38At Northampton
  39. 39The Approaching End
  40. 40Conclusion
  41. 41Asylum Poems
  42. 42Love of Nature
  43. 43The Invitation
  44. 44To the Lark
  45. 45Graves of Infants
  46. 46Bonnie Lassie o!
  47. 47Phoebe of the Scottish Glen
  48. 48Maid of the Wilderness
  49. 49Mary Bateman
  50. 50When Shall We Meet Again?
  51. 51The Lover’s Invitation
  52. 52Nature’s Darling
  53. 53I’ll Dream Upon the Days to Come
  54. 54To Isabel
  55. 55The Shepherd’s Daughter
  56. 56Lassie, I Love Thee
  57. 57At the Foot of Clifford Hill
  58. 58To My Wife — A Valentine
  59. 59My True Love Is a Sailor
  60. 60The Sailor’s Return
  61. 61Birds, Why Are Ye Silent?
  62. 62Meet Me To-Night
  63. 63Young Jenny
  64. 64Adieu!
  65. 65My Bonny Alice and Her Pitcher
  66. 66The Maiden I Love
  67. 67To Jenny Lind
  68. 68Little Trotty Wagtail
  69. 69The Forest Maid
  70. 70Bonny Mary o!
  71. 71Love’s Emblem
  72. 72The Morning Walk
  73. 73To Miss C…
  74. 74I Pluck Summer Blossoms
  75. 75The March Nosegay
  76. 76Left Alone
  77. 77To Mary
  78. 78The Nightingale
  79. 79The Dying Child
  80. 80Mary
  81. 81Clock-a-Clay
  82. 82Spring
  83. 83Evening
  84. 84The Swallow
  85. 85Jockey and Jenny
  86. 86The Face I Love So Dearly
  87. 87The Beanfield
  88. 88Where She Told Her Love
  89. 89Milking o’ the Kye
  90. 90A Lover’s Vows
  91. 91The Fall of the Year
  92. 92Autumn
  93. 93Early Love
  94. 94Evening
  95. 95A Valentine
  96. 96To Liberty
  97. 97Approach of Winter
  98. 98Mary Dove
  99. 99Spring’s Nosegay
  100. 100The Lost One
  101. 101The Tell-Tale Flowers
  102. 102The Skylark
  103. 103Poets Love Nature — A Fragment
  104. 104Home Yearnings
  105. 105My Schoolboy Days
  106. 106Love Lives Beyond the Tomb
  107. 107My Early Home
  108. 108Mary Appleby
  109. 109Among the Green Bushes
  110. 110To Jane
  111. 111The Old Year
  112. 112Miscellaneous Poems
  113. 113Two Sonnets to Mary
  114. 114The Vanities of Life
  115. 115March
  116. 116The Old Man’s Lament
  117. 117Spring Flowers
  118. 118Poem on Death
  119. 119The Wanton Chloe — A Pastoral
  120. 120The Old Shepherd
  121. 121To a Rosebud in Humble Life
  122. 122The Triumphs of Time
  123. 123To John Milton
  124. 124The Birds and St. Valentine
  125. 125Farewell and Defiance to Love
  126. 126The Gipsy’s Song
  127. 127Peggy Band
  128. 128To a Brook
  129. 129Prose Fragments
  130. 130Essay on Popularity
  131. 131Scraps for an Essay on Criticism and Fashion
  132. 132Scraps for an Essay on Criticism
  133. 133Old Songs and Ballads
  134. 134Adieu to My False Love Forever
  135. 135O Silly Love! O Cunning Love!
  136. 136Nobody Cometh to Woo
  137. 137Fare Thee Well
  138. 138Mary Neele
  139. 139Love Scorned by Pride
  140. 140Betrayed
  141. 141The Maiden’s Welcome
  142. 142The False Knight’s Tragedy
  143. 143Love’s Riddle
  144. 144The Banks of Ivory
  145. 145Endnotes

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