• 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

    John Clare: 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
    John Clare (2015). “Poems Chiefly from Manuscript”, p.268, The Floating Press