John Clare – MADHU MALTI

The Wren : John Clare : : Bird Poems : :

Why is the cuckoo’s melody preferred,And nightingale’s rich songs so madly praisedIn poets’ rhymes! Is there no other birdOf Nature’s minstrelsy, that oft hath raisedOne’s heart to ecstasy and mirth as well?I judge not how another’s taste is caught,With mine are other birds that bear the bell,Whose song hath crowds of happy memories brought: —SuchContinue reading “The Wren : John Clare : : Bird Poems : :”

The Yellowhammer’s Nest : John Clare : : Bird Poems : :

The Yellowhammer’s Nest : : By John Clare: Just by the wooden brig a bird flew up,Frit by the cowboy as he scrambled downTo reach the misty dewberry—let us stoopAnd seek its nest—the brook we need not dread,‘Tis scarcely deep enough a bee to drown,So it sings harmless o’er its pebbly bed—Ay here it is,Continue reading “The Yellowhammer’s Nest : John Clare : : Bird Poems : :”

The Shepherd’s Calendar: November : John Clare : : November Poems : : Months Poems: :

The Shepherds Calendar :November : : By John Clare : Northamptonshire / England : : :: The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon;And, if the sun looks through, ’tis with a faceBeamless and pale and round, as if the moon,When done the journey of her nightly race,Had found him sleeping, and supplied hisContinue reading “The Shepherd’s Calendar: November : John Clare : : November Poems : : Months Poems: :”

The Shepherd’s Calendar: October : John Clare : : October Poems : : Months Poems : :

The Shepherd’s Calendar – October : : by John Clare ( 1793 – 1864 ) ( Northamptonshire / England ) Nature now spreads around in dreary hueA pall to cover all that summer knewYet in the poets solitary waySome pleasing objects for his praise delaySomthing that makes him pause and turn againAs every trifle willContinue reading “The Shepherd’s Calendar: October : John Clare : : October Poems : : Months Poems : :”

The Shepherd’s Calendar : August : John Clare : : August Poems : : Months Poems : :

The Shepherd’s Calendar : August : : : : : : : : : : By John Clare : ( 1793 – 1864 ) : : : : : : Harvest approaches with its bustling dayThe wheat tans brown and barley bleaches greyIn yellow garb the oat land intervenesAnd tawney glooms the valley thronged withContinue reading “The Shepherd’s Calendar : August : John Clare : : August Poems : : Months Poems : :”

The Shepherd’s Calendar: July : John Clare : : July Poems : : Months Poems : :

The Shepherds Calendar – July Poem by John Clare : : Poet’s Page Poems MoreNext Poem138 / 174Previous PoemThe Shepherds Calendar – JulyR Daughter of pastoral smells and sightsAnd sultry days and dewy nightsJuly resumes her yearly placeWi her milking maiden faceRuddy and tand yet sweet to viewWhen everywhere’s a vale of dewAnd raps itContinue reading “The Shepherd’s Calendar: July : John Clare : : July Poems : : Months Poems : :”

May : John Clare : : May Poems : : Months Poems : :

Come queen of months in companyWi all thy merry minstrelsyThe restless cuckoo absent longAnd twittering swallows chimney songAnd hedge row crickets notes that runFrom every bank that fronts the sunAnd swathy bees about the grassThat stops wi every bloom they passAnd every minute every hourKeep teazing weeds that wear a flowerAnd toil and childhoods hummingContinue reading “May : John Clare : : May Poems : : Months Poems : :”

The Shepherd’s Calendar: March : : John Clare : : March Poems : : Months Poems : :

The Shepheardes CalenderMarch ÆGLOGA TERTIA ARGUMENT IN this Æglogue two shepheards boyes, taking occasion of the season, beginne to make purpose of love, and other pleasaunce which to springtime is most agreeable. The speciall meaning hereof is to give certaine markes and tokens to know Cupide, the poets god of love. But more particularlye. IContinue reading “The Shepherd’s Calendar: March : : John Clare : : March Poems : : Months Poems : :”

John Clare, ‘February : John Clare : February Poems : : Months Poems : :

John ClareJohn Clare The Shepherds Calendar – February – A Thaw Poem. The snow is gone from cottage topsThe thatch moss glows in brighter greenAnd eves in quick succession dropsWhere grinning ides once hath beenPit patting Wi a pleasant noiseIn tubs set by the cottage doorAnd ducks and geese wi happy joysDouse in the yardContinue reading “John Clare, ‘February : John Clare : February Poems : : Months Poems : :”

Winter Rainbow : John Clare : : શિયાળું મેઘધનુષ્ય : : જ્હોન કલેર : અનુવાદ : વિ જયરાજ : : Winter Poems : :

Winter Rainbow.John ClareThou Winter, thou art keen, intensely keen;Thy cutting frowns experience bids me know,For in thy weather days and days I’ve been,As grinning north-winds horribly did blow,And pepper’d round my head their hail and snow:Throughout thy reign ’tis mine each year to prove thee;And, spite of every storm I’ve beetled in,With all thy insults,Continue reading “Winter Rainbow : John Clare : : શિયાળું મેઘધનુષ્ય : : જ્હોન કલેર : અનુવાદ : વિ જયરાજ : : Winter Poems : :”