Potential Titles: John Clare

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Toiled in the naked fields - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

Where no bush a shelter yields - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

Poverty must brave the storm - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

As suits a tyrant's trade - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

Bask in Fortune's arms - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

How the weather's getting on - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

Fresh horrors scheming there - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

Endless Mercy stoops to save - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

Still beating through the snow - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

How many a bitter blast - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

Till the clock had counted ten - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

With aching bones and heavy head - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

The shock of fortune's frown - John Clare "Effusion"

With muttering curses stung - John Clare "The Harvest Morning"

Your rigid fates confine - John Clare "The Harvest Morning"

Must recruit exhausted power - John Clare "The Harvest Morning"

Forsake me like a memory lost - John Clare "I Am!"

Rise and vanish in oblivious host - John Clare "I Am!"

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise - John Clare "I Am!"

Into the living sea of waking dreams - John Clare "I Am!"

The vast shipwreck of my life's esteems - John Clare "I Am!"

Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly - John Clare "I Hid My Love"

The fly's bass turned a lion's roar - John Clare "I Hid My Love"

And even silence found a tongue - John Clare "I Hid My Love"

The riddle nature could not prove - John Clare "I Hid My Love"

Of night and dark obscurity - John Clare "An Invite to Eternity"

Where the path has lost its way - John Clare "An Invite to Eternity"

Where the sun forgets the day - John Clare "An Invite to Eternity"

Will fade like visioned dreams - John Clare "An Invite to Eternity"

And could words unseal the spell - John Clare "The Meeting"

While the dazzled eye surveys - John Clare "Noon"

Cheer me with your warbling notes - John Clare "Noon"

Gone away to nothingness and night - John Clare "The Old Year"

A guest to every heart's desire - John Clare "The Old Year"

Full many a fruitless prayer - John Clare "Patty of the Vale"

And gnaw the frozen turnip - John Clare "Sheep in Winter"

Bear a load of snow upon their backs - John Clare "Sheep in Winter"

And hides behind the hedges - John Clare "Sheep in Winter"

My startled soul to charm - John Clare "Song"

Swallows check their winding flight - John Clare "Summer Evening"

Sparrows fighting on the thatch - John Clare "Summer Evening"

The glow-worm burnishes its lamp - John Clare "Summer Images"

A merry thrush sings hymns of rapture - John Clare "The Thrush's Nest"

While I drank the sound with joy - John Clare "The Thrush's Nest"

A brood of nature's minstrels - John Clare "The Thrush's Nest"

Mix our wishes in a tokening tear - John Clare "To an April Daisy"

Thunder's grave black vest - John Clare "To the Clouds"

The dwelling of all majesty - John Clare "To the Clouds"

An hour-glass on the run - John Clare "What Is Life?"

That in the act of seizing shrinks - John Clare "What Is Life?"

A cobweb hiding disappointment's thorn - John Clare "What Is Life?"

The universal plagues of life - John Clare "What Is Life?"

The day in winter's loaded garment - John Clare "Winter Walk"

A single feather of the driving storm - John Clare "Winter Walk"

As kings with all their luxury - John Clare "The Woodman"

From long debts keep free - John Clare "The Woodman"

And dithering echo starts and mocks - John Clare "The Woodman"

Content with meaner prey - John Clare "The Woodman"

Give twopence for the chance - John Clare "The Woodman"

Sufficient strength to toil - John Clare "The Woodman"


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