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I Hid my Love

I hid my love when young till I    Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly;    I hid my love 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.    I met her in the greenest dells,   Where dewdrops pearl the wood bluebells;   The lost breeze kissed her bright blue eye,   The bee kissed and went singing by,   A sunbeam found a passage there,   A gold chain round her neck so fair;   As secret as the wild bee's song   She lay there all the summer long.   I hid my love in field and town   Till e'en the breeze would knock me down;   The bees seemed singing ballads o'er,   The fly's bass turned a lion's roar;   And even silence found a tongue,   To haunt me all the summer long;   The riddle nature could not prove   Was nothing else but secret love.

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This belongs to the group of poems written while Clare was confined in the Northampton County Asylum from 1842 until his death in 1864.

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John Clare

John Clare (13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864) was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English cou…

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