Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude And fled … - John Clare

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

John Clare
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

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

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

O how I feel, just as I pluck the flower And stick it to my breast — words can't reveal; But there are souls that in this lovely hour Know all I mean, and feel whate'er I feel.

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

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