My illness was love, though I knew not the smart, But the b… - John Clare

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

John Clare
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

love poetry

English

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John Clare (13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864) was an English poet, commonly known as "the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet". The son of a farm labourer, he was born at Helpston near Peterborough.

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Alternative Names: Northamptonshire Peasant Poet

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

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:
Things least to be believed are most preferred.
All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,
Are readily believed if once put down in print

O lead me onward to the loneliest shade,
The darkest place that quiet ever made,
Where kingcups grow most beauteous to behold
And shut up green and open into gold.

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

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