| John Clare - Appalachian Region, Southern - 1986 - 264 pages
...them all Each little tyrant with his little sign Shows where man claims earth glows no more divine On paths to freedom and to childhood dear A board sticks up to notice 'no road here' 70 And on the tree with ivy overhung The hated sign by vulgar taste is hung As tho the very birds should... | |
| Geoffrey Summerfield, Hugh Haughton, Adam Phillips - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 348 pages
...them all Each little tyrant with his little sign Shows where man claims earth glows no more divine On paths to freedom and to childhood dear A board sticks...to know When they go there they must no further go (lines 65-74) Again we are brought back to destruction and restriction. The 'mighty giants' are replaced... | |
| John Clare - Poetry - 2000 - 404 pages
...fancy's eye As fallen landscapes from an evening sky These paths are stopt - the rude philistine's thrall Is laid upon them and destroyed them all Each...to know When they go there they must no further go Thus, with the poor, scared freedom bade goodbye And much they feel it in the smothered sigh And birds... | |
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