Author: John Clare (1793 - 1864)

Text Compilations

• John Clare: Poems
• Life and Remains of John Clare
• Madrigals and Chronicles
• The Life of John Clare
• The Rural Muse
• The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems

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• All nature owns with one accord GER (Nature's Hymn to the Deity)
• All nature owns with one accord GER - Peter Dickinson (Nature's Hymn to the Deity)
• An Invite, to Eternity (Say, wilt thou go with me, sweet maid) (from John Clare: Poems) - Ian Venables
• Autumn (I love the fitful gust that shakes) (from John Clare: Poems)
• Badger (When midnight comes a host of dogs and men) (from John Clare: Poems)
• Badger (When midnight comes a host of dogs and men) (from John Clare: Poems) - Peter Dickinson
• Ballad (Winter's gone, the summer breezes) (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) GER
• Birds' lament (Oh, says the linnet, if I sing) (from Madrigals and Chronicles)
• Born upon an angel's breast (In crime and enmity they lie) - Ian Venables GER
• Break of day (The lark he rises early) - Ian Stephens
• Byron's Funeral (My eye was arrested by straggling groups of common people)
• Byron's Funeral (My eye was arrested by straggling groups of common people) - David Evan Thomas
• Clock-a-clay (In the cowslip pips I lie) (from Life and Remains of John Clare)
• Clock-a-clay (In the cowslip pips I lie) (from Life and Remains of John Clare) - Richard Rodney Bennett, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Trevor Hold
• Come queen of months in company (May)
• Come queen of months in company - (Edward) Benjamin Britten (The driving boy)
• Conclusion (Dear Sir, / I am in a Madhouse and quite forget your Name) - David Evan Thomas
• Dear Sir, / I am in a Madhouse and quite forget your Name - David Evan Thomas (Conclusion)
• Dear Sir, / I am in a Madhouse and quite forget your Name - David Evan Thomas (In a Madhouse)
• Early Nightingale (When first we hear the shy-come nightingales) (from John Clare: Poems)
• Elegy (I am: yet what I am none cares or knows) (from The Life of John Clare) - Kurt George Roger GER
• Enquiry (My dear boy) - David Evan Thomas
• Evening bells () - Ian Venables [x]
• Evening Primrose (When once the sun sinks in the west) (from The Rural Muse - Sonnets) DUT GER
• Farm Breakfast (Maids shout to breakfast in a merry strife) (from John Clare: Poems)
• Farm Breakfast (Maids shout to breakfast in a merry strife) (from John Clare: Poems) - Trevor Hold
• Farmer's boy (He waits all day beside his little flock) - Carol Barratt
• Firwood (The fir trees taper into twigs and wear) (from John Clare: Poems)
• God looks on nature with a glorious eye - David Evan Thomas (With a glorious eye)
• Hares at play (The birds are gone to bed, the cows are still)
• He loved the brook's soft sound (from John Clare: Poems) (Peasant Poet)
• He loved the brook's soft sound (from John Clare: Poems) - Stephen Dodgson (Peasant Poet)
• Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met (from John Clare: Poems) (Ploughman singing)
• Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met (from John Clare: Poems) - Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (Ploughman singing)
• He waits all day beside his little flock - Carol Barratt (Farmer's boy)
• I am: yet what I am none cares or knows (from The Life of John Clare) GER - Kurt George Roger (Elegy)
• I am: yet what I am none cares or knows (from The Life of John Clare) GER (I am)
• I am: yet what I am none cares or knows (from The Life of John Clare) GER - Trevor Hold, Thomas Mirante, David Evan Thomas, Ian Venables (I am)
• I am (I am: yet what I am none cares or knows) (from The Life of John Clare) GER
• I am (I am: yet what I am none cares or knows) (from The Life of John Clare) - Trevor Hold, Thomas Mirante, David Evan Thomas, Ian Venables GER
• Ich bin! Doch was ich bin - mag's keiner wissen? (Ich bin)
• Ich bin! Doch was ich bin - mag's keiner wissen? - Gary Bachlund (Ich bin)
• Ich bin (Ich bin! Doch was ich bin - mag's keiner wissen?)
• Ich bin (Ich bin! Doch was ich bin - mag's keiner wissen?) - Gary Bachlund
• I love the fitful gust that shakes (from John Clare: Poems) (Autumn)
• I love the fitful gust that shakes (from John Clare: Poems) - Rudolph T. Werther (I love the fitful gust)
• I love the fitful gust (I love the fitful gust that shakes) (from John Clare: Poems) - Rudolph T. Werther
• In a Madhouse (Dear Sir, / I am in a Madhouse and quite forget your Name) - David Evan Thomas
• In crime and enmity they lie GER - Ian Venables (Born upon an angel's breast)
• In crime and enmity they lie GER (Love cannot die)
• In the cowslip pips I lie (from Life and Remains of John Clare) (Clock-a-clay)
• In the cowslip pips I lie (from Life and Remains of John Clare) - Richard Rodney Bennett, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Trevor Hold (Clock-a-clay)
• In the cowslip pips I lie (In the cowslip pips I lie) (from Life and Remains of John Clare) - James Walter Wilson
• In the cowslip pips I lie (from Life and Remains of John Clare) - James Walter Wilson (In the cowslip pips I lie)
• Invitation to Eternity (Say, wilt thou go with me, sweet maid) (from John Clare: Poems)
• Invitation to Eternity (Say, wilt thou go with me, sweet maid) (from John Clare: Poems) - David Campbell Dorward, Patric Standford
• It is the evening hour (It is the evening hour) (from John Clare: Poems) - Harold Ronald Clark, Shena Eleanor Fraser GER
• It is the evening hour (from John Clare: Poems) GER - Harold Ronald Clark, Shena Eleanor Fraser (It is the evening hour)
• It is the evening hour (from John Clare: Poems) GER (Mary Bayfield)
• It is the evening hour (from John Clare: Poems) GER - Leslie Walters (The lost one)
• I've often tried, when tending sheep and cow (The mock bird)
• I've often tried, when tending sheep and cow - Trevor Hold (The mock bird)
• I wandered out one rainy day - Terence Greaves (Quail's Nest)
• Little Trotty Wagtail he went in the rain (from Life and Remains of John Clare) (Little Trotty Wagtail)
• Little Trotty Wagtail he went in the rain (from Life and Remains of John Clare) - Edgar Leslie Bainton, Alan Bullard, Ian Alfred Copley, Terence Greaves, Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob, John Jeffreys, Edmund Duncan Rubbra, Martin Edward Fallas Shaw, Peter Warlock (Little Trotty Wagtail)
• Little Trotty Wagtail he went in the rain (from Life and Remains of John Clare) - Stephen Dodgson, James Walter Wilson (Trotty Wagtail)
• Little Trotty Wagtail (Little Trotty Wagtail he went in the rain) (from Life and Remains of John Clare)
• Little Trotty Wagtail (Little Trotty Wagtail he went in the rain) (from Life and Remains of John Clare) - Edgar Leslie Bainton, Alan Bullard, Ian Alfred Copley, Terence Greaves, Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob, John Jeffreys, Edmund Duncan Rubbra, Martin Edward Fallas Shaw, Peter Warlock
• Love cannot die (In crime and enmity they lie) GER
• Love lives beyond the tomb (Love lives beyond the tomb) (from Life and Remains of John Clare) GER
• Love lives beyond the tomb (Love lives beyond the tomb) (from Life and Remains of John Clare) - Rudolph T. Werther GER
• Love lives beyond the tomb (from Life and Remains of John Clare) GER (Love lives beyond the tomb)
• Love lives beyond the tomb (from Life and Remains of John Clare) GER - Rudolph T. Werther (Love lives beyond the tomb)
• Love, meet me in the green glen - Brian Elias (Meet me in the green glen)
• Maids shout to breakfast in a merry strife (from John Clare: Poems) (Farm Breakfast)
• Maids shout to breakfast in a merry strife (from John Clare: Poems) - Trevor Hold (Farm Breakfast)
• Market Day (With arms and legs at work and gentle stroke) (from John Clare: Poems)
• Market Day (With arms and legs at work and gentle stroke) (from John Clare: Poems) - Trevor Hold
• Mary Bayfield (It is the evening hour) (from John Clare: Poems) GER
• May (Come queen of months in company)
• Meet me in the green glen (Love, meet me in the green glen) - Brian Elias
• Morning (O now the crimson east, its fire-streak burning) (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems)
• Morning (O now the crimson east, its fire-streak burning) (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) - Richard Roderick-Jones
• My dear boy - David Evan Thomas (Enquiry)
• My eye was arrested by straggling groups of common people (Byron's Funeral)
• My eye was arrested by straggling groups of common people - David Evan Thomas (Byron's Funeral)
• Nature's Hymn to the Deity (All nature owns with one accord) GER
• Nature's Hymn to the Deity (All nature owns with one accord) - Peter Dickinson GER
• Nobody will own me or have me at any price [x] * (To Mary Collingwood)
• No sort of learning ever hurt his head [x] (The lout)
• No sort of learning ever hurt his head [x] - Trevor Hold (The lout)
• November (The shepherds almost wonder where they dwell)
• November (The shepherds almost wonder where they dwell) - Terence Greaves, Trevor Hold
• Oh, says the linnet, if I sing (from Madrigals and Chronicles) (Birds' lament)
• Oh, says the linnet, if I sing (from Madrigals and Chronicles) - Richard Rodney Bennett, Henry Tye (The birds' lament)
• O Life, thy name to me's a galling sound (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) (On Death)
• O Life, thy name to me's a galling sound (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) - David Leo Diamond (On Death)
• On Death (O Life, thy name to me's a galling sound) (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems)
• On Death (O Life, thy name to me's a galling sound) (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) - David Leo Diamond
• O now the crimson east, its fire-streak burning (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) (Morning)
• O now the crimson east, its fire-streak burning (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) - Richard Roderick-Jones (Morning)
• Peasant Poet (He loved the brook's soft sound) (from John Clare: Poems)
• Peasant Poet (He loved the brook's soft sound) (from John Clare: Poems) - Stephen Dodgson
• Ploughman singing (Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met) (from John Clare: Poems)
• Ploughman singing (Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met) (from John Clare: Poems) - Ivor (Bertie) Gurney
• Quail's Nest (I wandered out one rainy day) - Terence Greaves
• Say, wilt thou go with me, sweet maid (from John Clare: Poems) - Ian Venables (An Invite, to Eternity)
• Say, wilt thou go with me, sweet maid (from John Clare: Poems) (Invitation to Eternity)
• Say, wilt thou go with me, sweet maid (from John Clare: Poems) - David Campbell Dorward, Patric Standford (Invitation to Eternity)
• Shepherd's Rondel (Winter's gone, the summer breezes) (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) - Alec Rowley GER
• Simple enchantress! wreath'd in summer blooms (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) (To the Rural Muse)
• Simple enchantress! wreath'd in summer blooms (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) - Richard Roderick-Jones (To the Rural Muse)
• Song's Eternity (What is song's eternity?) (from John Clare: Poems)
• Song's Eternity (What is song's eternity?) (from John Clare: Poems) - Ethel Mary Boyce, Lionel Lethbridge, Michael Short, Patric Standford, James Walter Wilson
• The birds are gone to bed, the cows are still (Hares at play)
• The birds are gone to bed, the cows are still - James Walter Wilson (The birds are gone to bed)
• The birds are gone to bed (The birds are gone to bed, the cows are still) - James Walter Wilson
• The birds' lament (Oh, says the linnet, if I sing) (from Madrigals and Chronicles) - Richard Rodney Bennett, Henry Tye
• The driving boy beside his team (May)
• The driving boy (Come queen of months in company) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten
• The early nightingale (When first we hear the shy-come nightingales) (from John Clare: Poems) - Richard Rodney Bennett
• The evening primrose (When once the sun sinks in the west) (from The Rural Muse - Sonnets) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten DUT GER
• The fir trees taper into twigs and wear (from John Clare: Poems) (Firwood)
• The fir trees taper into twigs and wear (from John Clare: Poems) - Rudolph T. Werther (The firtrees taper)
• The firtrees taper (The fir trees taper into twigs and wear) (from John Clare: Poems) - Rudolph T. Werther
• The Fox (The shepherd on his journey heard when nigh) (from John Clare: Poems)
• The Fox (The shepherd on his journey heard when nigh) (from John Clare: Poems) - Stephen Dodgson
• The insect world amid the suns and dew - Richard Rodney Bennett (The insect world)
• The insect world (The insect world amid the suns and dew) - Richard Rodney Bennett
• The lark he rises early - Ian Stephens (Break of day)
• The lost one (It is the evening hour) (from John Clare: Poems) - Leslie Walters GER
• The lout (No sort of learning ever hurt his head) [x]
• The lout (No sort of learning ever hurt his head) - Trevor Hold [x]
• The mock bird (I've often tried, when tending sheep and cow)
• The mock bird (I've often tried, when tending sheep and cow) - Trevor Hold
• There is a charm in solitude that cheers (There is a charm in Solitude that cheers)
• There is a charm in solitude that cheers (There is a charm in Solitude that cheers) - David Evan Thomas
• There is a charm in Solitude that cheers (There is a charm in solitude that cheers)
• There is a charm in Solitude that cheers - David Evan Thomas (There is a charm in solitude that cheers)
• The shepherd on his journey heard when nigh (from John Clare: Poems) (The Fox)
• The shepherd on his journey heard when nigh (from John Clare: Poems) - Stephen Dodgson (The Fox)
• The shepherds almost wonder where they dwell (November)
• The shepherds almost wonder where they dwell - Terence Greaves, Trevor Hold (November)
• The turkeys wade the close to catch the bees (from John Clare: Poems) (Turkeys)
• The turkeys wade the close to catch the bees (from John Clare: Poems) - Stephen Dodgson (Turkeys)
• The winter robin () - Alan Bullard [x]
• To John Clare (Well, honest John, how fare you now at home?) (from John Clare: Poems)
• To John Clare (Well, honest John, how fare you now at home?) (from John Clare: Poems) - Trevor Hold
• To Mary Collingwood (Nobody will own me or have me at any price) [x] *
• To the Rural Muse (Simple enchantress! wreath'd in summer blooms) (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems)
• To the Rural Muse (Simple enchantress! wreath'd in summer blooms) (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) - Richard Roderick-Jones
• Trotty Wagtail (Little Trotty Wagtail he went in the rain) (from Life and Remains of John Clare) - Stephen Dodgson, James Walter Wilson
• Turkeys (The turkeys wade the close to catch the bees) (from John Clare: Poems)
• Turkeys (The turkeys wade the close to catch the bees) (from John Clare: Poems) - Stephen Dodgson
• Twas born upon an angel's breast GER (Love cannot die)
• Well, honest John, how fare you now at home? (from John Clare: Poems) (To John Clare)
• Well, honest John, how fare you now at home? (from John Clare: Poems) - Trevor Hold (To John Clare)
• What is song's eternity? (from John Clare: Poems) (Song's Eternity)
• What is song's eternity? (from John Clare: Poems) - Ethel Mary Boyce, Lionel Lethbridge, Michael Short, Patric Standford, James Walter Wilson (Song's Eternity)
• When first we hear the shy-come nightingales (from John Clare: Poems) (Early Nightingale)
• When first we hear the shy-come nightingales (from John Clare: Poems) - Richard Rodney Bennett (The early nightingale)
• When first we hear the shy-come nightingales (from John Clare: Poems) - Rudolph T. Werther (When first we hear)
• When first we hear (When first we hear the shy-come nightingales) (from John Clare: Poems) - Rudolph T. Werther
• When midnight comes a host of dogs and men (from John Clare: Poems) (Badger)
• When midnight comes a host of dogs and men (from John Clare: Poems) - Peter Dickinson (Badger)
• When midnight comes a host of dogs and men (from John Clare: Poems) - James Walter Wilson (When midnight comes)
• When midnight comes (When midnight comes a host of dogs and men) (from John Clare: Poems) - James Walter Wilson
• When once the sun sinks in the west (from The Rural Muse - Sonnets) DUT GER (Evening Primrose)
• When once the sun sinks in the west (from The Rural Muse - Sonnets) DUT GER - (Edward) Benjamin Britten (The evening primrose)
• Wilt thou go with me, sweet maid (from John Clare: Poems) (Invitation to Eternity)
• Winter's gone, the summer breezes (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) GER (Ballad)
• Winter's gone, the summer breezes (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) GER - Alec Rowley (Shepherd's Rondel)
• Winter's gone, the summer breezes (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) GER - William Sterndale Bennett (Winter's gone)
• Winter's gone (Winter's gone, the summer breezes) (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) - William Sterndale Bennett GER
• Winter's Macht ist überwunden - William Sterndale Bennett (Winters Macht)
• Winters Macht (Winter's Macht ist überwunden) - William Sterndale Bennett
• With a glorious eye (God looks on nature with a glorious eye) - David Evan Thomas
• With arms and legs at work and gentle stroke (from John Clare: Poems) (Market Day)
• With arms and legs at work and gentle stroke (from John Clare: Poems) - Trevor Hold (Market Day)
• You told me to enquire about my old companions

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