I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
John ClareCrowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.
John ClareOld April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the sun are born, And all poor April's charms are swept away.
John ClareI never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place ... and can return no more.
John ClareI live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seems careless of having anything to do with โ they hardly dare talk in my company for fear I shoud mention them in my writings & I find more pleasure in wandering the fields then in mixing among my silent neighbours who are insensible of everything but toiling & talking of it & that to no purpose.
John Clare