AN INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES

for JOHN CLARE: SELECTED POETRY AND PROSE,

Edited by Merryn and Raymond Williams

(Methuen English Texts, 1986)

With an index of the editorial titles of prose extracts.

Compiled by John Goodridge For the John Clare Society (c) 1993

Corrections or comments, please contact:
Dr John Goodridge, The Clare Forum
Department of English and Media Studies
The Nottingham Trent University
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Poetry titles and first lines

• A seaboy on the giddy mast 191
• All how silent and how still 33
• Along the taller wood with ivy hung 164
• As boys where playing in their schools dislike 156
• As most of nature's children prove to be 68
• At evens hour the truce of toil tis sweet 74
• Autumn I love thy latter end to view 64
• THE BADGER 161
• Beside a runnel build my shed 53
• BIRDS NESTS 199
• But they who hunt the fields for rotten meat 163
• CHILD HAROLD (extract) 183
• CHILDHOOD (extract) 124
• CHILDISH RECOLLECTIONS 62
• Close where the milking maidens pass 158
• Cocks wake the early morn wi' many a Crow 36
• THE COTTAGER 112
• Cowper the Poet of the field 196
• THE CROW 194
• DON JUAN A POEM 167
• Each noise that breathed around us then 124
• Each scene of youth to mes a pleasing toy 62
• Eliza now the summer tells 172
• EMMONSAILS HEATH IN WINTER 136
• ENGLAND, 1830 136
• Far spread the moorey ground a level scene 90
• THE FATE OF GENIUS (extract) 76
• THE FENS 150
• THE FLITTING (extract) 145
• THE FLOOD 134
• THE FODDERING BOY 137
• THE FOX 160
• FRAGMENT ('The Elm tree's heavy foliage meets the eye') 198
• Give me no high flown fangled things 145
• THE GREEN WOODPECKER'S NEST 157
• THE GROUNDLARK 158
• THE GIPSY CAMP 165
• THE GYPSYS CAMP 65
• Hail Humble Helpstone where thy valies spread 25
• THE HARVEST MORNING 36
• He loved the brook's soft sound 195
• He scampered [to] the bushes far away 160
• He turns about to face the loud uproar 161
• HEDGE SPARROW 145
• THE HEDGEHOG 163
• HELPSTON GREEN 71
• HELPSTONE 25
• How oft on Sundays when Id time to tramp 65
• How peaceable it seems for lonely men 194
• How sweet when weary dropping on a bank 52
• I AM 193
• I am--yet what I am, none cares or knows 193
• I found a ball of grass among the hay 154
• 'I knew him from a child' the clerk would say 76
• I love at early morn from new mown swath 130
• I love to see the old heaths withered brake 136
• It is the evening hour 190
• Just by the wooden brig a bird flew up 141
• THE LAMENT OF SWORDY WELL 93
• THE LAMENTATIONS OF ROUND-OAK WATERS 38
• LANGLEY BUSH 54
• THE LAST OF MARCH 80
• LINES ON 'COWPER' 196
• LONDON VERSUS EPPING FOREST 165
• LOOK THROUGH THE NAKED BRAMBLE AND BLACK THORN 193
• LORD HEAR MY PRAYER WHEN TROUBLE GLOOMS 189
• Lover of swamps 109
• Many are poets--though they use no pen 183
• THE MARTEN 159
• MARY ('It is the evening hour') 190
• MIST IN THE MEADOWS 135
• THE MORES 90
• THE MOUSE'S NEST 154
• MY MARY 48
• Nature that pauses nearly dumb 79
• NOON ('All how silent and how still') 33
• NOON ('The mid day hour of twelve the clock counts oer') 73
• Now evening comes and from the new laid hedge 112
• O Langley bush the shepherds sacred shade 54
• O soul enchanting poesy 99
• Old Elm that murmured in our chimney top 84
• On Lolham Brigs in wild and lonely mood 134
• Oppress'd wi' grief a double share 38
• THE PARISH (extracts: 'Prologue', 'Village patriots',
• 'The parish council', 'The workhouse') 100
• THE PEASANT POET 195
• Petitioners are full of prayers 93
• THE PETTICHAPS NEST 139
• 'Poets are born'--and so are whores--the trade is 167
• THE PROGRESS OF RYHME (extract) 99
• PROPOSALS FOR BUILDING A COTTAGE 53
• THE PUDDOCK'S NEST 158
• THE RAGWORT 154
• Ragwort thou humble flower with tattered leaves 154
• REMEMBRANCES 147
• RURAL EVENING (extract) 74
• SAND MARTIN 138
• SCHOOLBOYS IN WINTER 137
• SHEEP IN WINTER 155
• THE SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR (extract from 'June') 115
• THE SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR (extract from 'November') 119
• Some keep a baited badger tame as hog 162
• SONG ('A seaboy on the giddy mast') 191
• SONG ('Eliza now the summer tells') 172
• SONG LAST DAY 192
• STONE PIT 156
• SUMMER ('How sweet when weary dropping on a bank') 52
• SUMMER EVENING (extract) 44
• SUMMER IMAGES (extract) 130
• Summer pleasures they are gone like to visions every one 147
• THE SUMMER SHOWER (extract) 133
• A SUNDAY WITH SHEPHERDS AND HERDBOYS (extract) 86
• Sweet chestnuts brown, like soleing leather turn 197
• The badger grunting on his woodland track 161
• The beating snow clad bell wi sounding dead 55
• The brakes, like young stag's horns, come up in Spring 165
• The crib stock fothered--horses suppered up 138
• The Elm tree's heavy foliage meets the eye 198
• The evening oer the meadow seems to stoop 135
• The foddering boy along the crumping snows 137
• The frighted women takes the boys away 162
• The green woodpecker flying up and down 157
• The hedgehog hides beneath the rotten hedge 163
• The martin cat long shaged of courage good 159
• The martin hurrys through the woodland gaps 159
• The mid day hour of twelve the clock counts oer 73
• The mower tramples on the wild bees' nest 155
• The Parish hind oppressions humble slave 100
• The passing traveller with wonder sees 156
• The plough team wet and dripping plashes home 133
• The sailing puddock sweeps about for prey 158
• The schoolboys still their morning rambles take 137
• The sheep get up and make their many tracks 155
• The shepherd on his journey heard when nigh 160
• The shepherds and the herding swains 86
• The shepherds idle hours are over now 115
• The sinken sun is takin leave 44
• The snow falls deep; the Forest lies alone 165
• The tame hedge sparrow in its russet dress 145
• The village sleeps in mist from morn till noon 119
• The Water Lilies, white and yellow flowers 164
• There is a day a dreadfull day 192
• THERE IS A CHARM IN SOLITUDE THAT CHEERS 195
• There is a small woodpecker red and grey 157
• These vague allusions to a country's wrongs 136
• Thou hermit haunter of the lonely glen 138
• Though o'er the darksome northern hill 80
• THE THRUSHES NEST 139
• TIS MARTINMAS FROM RIG TO RIG 188
• Tis Spring warm glows the South 199
• TO A FALLEN ELM 84
• TO JOHN CLARE 198
• TO THE SNIPE 109
• True as the church clock hand the hour pursues 112
• THE VILLAGE MINSTREL (extract) 68
• THE VIXEN 164
• Wandering by the rivers edge 150
• THE WATER LILIES 164
• Well honest John how fare you now at home 198
• Well in my many walks I rarely found 139
• When midnight comes a host of dogs and men 161
• Who lives where Beggars rarley speed? 48
• WILD BEES' NEST 155
• WILD DUCK'S NEST 156
• WINTER (extract) 79
• WINTER EVENING 138
• THE WINTERS COME 197
• Within a thick and spreading awthorn bush 139
• THE WOODMAN ('The beating snow clad bell wi sounding dead') 55
• THE WOODMAN ('Now evening comes and from the new laid hedge') 112
• WOODPECKER'S NEST 157
• WRITTEN IN NOVEMBER 64
• Ye injur'd fields ere while so gay 71
• THE YELLOWHAMMERS NEST 141

Prose editorial titles

• 'A Prophet is Nothing in His Own Country' 78
• 'Byron's Funeral' 166
• 'Going for a Soldier' 75
• 'Grammar' 51
• 'I had plenty of leisure' ['from The autobiography'] 89
• 'I was born at Helpstone' 30
• 'Journey Out of Essex' 177
• 'Letter to James Hipkins' 199
• 'Memories of Childhood' 128
• 'My First Attempts at Poetry' 66
• 'Snakes' 142