Photograph by Michael A. Blanchard
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.
- John Clare
April 13, 2008
April 13, 2008
Photograph by Michael A. Blanchard
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.
- John Clare
April 13, 2008 at 2:11 am
“Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.”
- John Clare
I have written it again in an effort to repeat it to myself .
I needed to feel the purity of green grass and
crystal clear blue skies .
Thank you for choosing to post this .
akash
April 13, 2008 at 2:21 am
Akash – I’m glad to have posted it, and gladder still to know that you have felt the words so deeply and profoundly.
April 27, 2008 at 1:55 pm
I like john Clare, he had very good pen…this is one of my fev:
I am!
1I am! yet what I am none cares or knows,
2My friends forsake me like a memory lost;
3I am the self-consumer of my woes,
4They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
5Like shades in love and death’s oblivion lost;
6And yet I am! and live with shadows tost
7Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
8Into the living sea of waking dreams,
9Where there is neither sense of life nor joys,
10But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems;
11And e’en the dearest–that I loved the best–
12Are strange–nay, rather stranger than the rest.
13I long for scenes where man has never trod;
14A place where woman never smil’d or wept;
15There to abide with my creator, God,
16And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept:
17Untroubling and untroubled where I lie;
18The grass below–above the vaulted sky.
April 29, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Amina – I didn’t know this was the poem from which the quote derives. It really is a great piece. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. Having read the whole bit now I like even better.