Selected Poems of John Clare
Volume 1
Volume 1
Careless Rambles
I love to wander at my idle will
In summers luscious prime about the fields
And kneel when thirsty at the little rill
To sip the draught its pebbly bottom yields
And where the maple bush its fountain shields
To lie and rest a swailey hour away
And crop the swelling peascod from the land
Or mid the uplands woodland walks to stray
Neath whose dark foliage with a welcome hand
I pluck the luscious strawberry ripe and red
As beautys lips -- and in my fancys dreams
As mid the velvet moss I musing tread
Fell life as lovely as her picture seems
I love to wander at my idle will
In summers luscious prime about the fields
And kneel when thirsty at the little rill
To sip the draught its pebbly bottom yields
And where the maple bush its fountain shields
To lie and rest a swailey hour away
And crop the swelling peascod from the land
Or mid the uplands woodland walks to stray
Neath whose dark foliage with a welcome hand
I pluck the luscious strawberry ripe and red
As beautys lips -- and in my fancys dreams
As mid the velvet moss I musing tread
Fell life as lovely as her picture seems
Poems
chosen by David Barnes from
Oxford World Classics: John Clare Major Works, and recorded for LibriVox.org
Oxford World Classics: John Clare Major Works, and recorded for LibriVox.org
