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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A VISION, by JOHN CLARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I lost the love of heaven above
Last Line: And kept my spirit with the free.
First Line: I lost the love of heaven above
Last Line: And kept my spirit with the free.
I lost the love of heaven above,
I spurned the lust of earth below,
I felt the sweets of fancied love,
And hell itself my only foe.
I lost earth's joys, but felt the glow
Of heaven's flame abound in me,
Till loveliness and I did grow
The bard of immortality.
I loved, but woman fell away;
I hid me from her faded fame.
I snatched the sun's eternal ray
And wrote till earth was but a name.
In every language upon earth,
On every shore, o'er every sea,
I gave my name immortal birth
And kept my spirit with the free.
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