<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577800" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Poems Of John Clare</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For years in Northampton mental asylum he battled his ghosts of despair<br>His Nation's finest poet of Nature the marvellous wordsmith John Clare<br>So many of his poems are relevant today<br>The one who loved Nature with words had a way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Helpston he grew up in not a cultural place<br>And though in that old Village his was a known face<br>They little realized the fame to them he'd bring<br>That poetry lovers World wide his praises would sing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Without him less people of Helpston would know<br>The great poet of Nature of centuries ago<br>He died in Northampton mental asylum in dire poverty<br>Yet is there one greater Nature poet than he? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">His flora and fauna poems have passed scrutiny's test<br>And as a Nature poet he was surely the best<br>Into the soul of Nature it seemed he could see<br>And his verses have outlived his mortality.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He never did enjoy his literary renown<br>And he died in the asylum in Northampton Town<br>But he was a true poet and his type are so rare<br>And old Helpston lives on in the poems of John Clare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577800" data-title="The Poems Of John Clare de Francis Duggan" data-description="For years in Northampton mental asylum he battled his ghosts of despair His Nation's finest poet of Nature the marvellous wordsmith John Clare So many of his poems are relevant today The one who loved Nature with words had a way. The Helpston he ..."></div> </div> </div>

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