John Clare

Poems (6)

• First Love

  I ne'er was struck before that hour / With love so sudden and so sweet. …

• Secret Love

  I hid my love when young till I / Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly; …

• Song [Secret Love]

  I hid my love when young while I / Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly …

• Summer Moods

  I Love at eventide to walk alone, / Down narrow glens, o’erhung with dewy thorn, …

• To Mary: I Sleep with Thee

  I sleep with thee, and wake with thee, / And yet thou art not there; …

• Written in Northampton County Asylum

  I AM! yet what I am who cares, or knows? / My friends forsake me like a memory lost. …