The Instinct Of Hope by John Clare
Clare read by Classic Poetry Aloud: http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to the p...
Classic Poetry Aloud · Classic Poetry Aloud
December 13, 20071m 39s
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (classicpoetryaloud.podomatic.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
Clare read by Classic Poetry Aloud:
http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/
Giving voice to the poetry of the past.
---------------------------------------------------
The Instinct Of Hope
by John Clare (1793 – 1864)
Is there another world for this frail dust
To warm with life and be itself again?
Something about me daily speaks there must,
And why should instinct nourish hopes in vain?
'Tis nature's prophesy that such will be,
And everything seems struggling to explain
The close sealed volume of its mystery.
Time wandering onward keeps its usual pace
As seeming anxious of eternity,
To meet that calm and find a resting place.
E'en the small violet feels a future power
And waits each year renewing blooms to bring,
And surely man is no inferior flower
To die unworthy of a second spring?
Topics
classicpoetryaloudenglishliteraturepoemsspokenwordjohnclare