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If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

I long for scenes where man has never trod; ... There to abide with my Creator, God.

How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.

I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude
And fled to the silence of sweet solitude.

I am the self-consumer of my woes,

And what is Life? - An hour-glass on the run

I am, as far as my politics reaches, 'King and Country' - no 'Innovations in Religion and Government' say I.

I had a variety of minds about me and all of them unsettled.

A maidenhead, the virgin's trouble
Is well-compare-d to a bubble
on a navigable river
Soon 'tis touched t'is gone forever

Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.

And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.

My illness was love, though I knew not the smart,
But the beauty of love was the blood of my heart.

My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away

Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

I sleep with thee, and wake with thee,
And yet thou are not there;
I fill my arms with thoughts of thee,
And press the common air.

I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.

How frail the bloom, how short the stay
That terminates us all!
Today we flourish green and gay,
Like leaves tomorrow fall.

In crime and enmity they lie
Who sin and tell us love can die,
Who say to us in slander's breath
That love belongs to sin and death.

Language has not the power to speak what love indites
The soul lies buried in the Ink that writes

I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place ... and can return no more.

Grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound the bitch I'll never be her slave.

When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

I loved thee, though I told thee not,
Right earlily and long, thou wert joy of my ever spot
theme of my every song.

Wildness is my suiting scene.