John Clare Quotes, Memories Quotes, Lying Quotes

I hid my love when young till I Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly; I hid my life to my despite Till I could not bear to look at light: I dare not gaze upon her face But left her memory in each place; Where'er I saw a wild flower lie I kissed and bade my love good-bye.

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I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

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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.

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I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my heart away complete

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

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I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes, They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost; And yet I am, and live with shadows tost.

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

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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.

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

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I long for scenes where man has never trod; A place where woman never smil'd or wept; There to abide with my creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept: Untroubling and untroubled where I lie; The grass below--above the vaulted sky.

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

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The snow has left the cottage top; The thatch moss grows in brighter green; And eaves in quick succession drop, Where grinning icicles have been, Pit-patting with a pleasant noise In tubs set by the cottage door; While duck and geese, with happy joys, Plunge in the yard pond brimming over. The sun peeps through the window pane: Which children mark with laughing eye, And in the wet street steal again To tell each other spring is night.

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

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Forgive me if, in friendship’s way, I offer thee a wreath of May.... [N]ourished by the dews of heaven.... So I have Ivy placed between, To prove that worth is ever green. The little blue Forget-me-not... Spring’s messenger in every spot, Smiling on all—"Remember me!

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

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

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Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news to mark again The bankrupt lists or price of grain. Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe, Yet, winter's leisure to regale, Hopes better times, and sips his ale.

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

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

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

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