{"id":431,"date":"2017-03-18T22:23:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T22:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robgoll.com\/content\/?p=431"},"modified":"2017-03-18T22:23:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T22:23:39","slug":"i-am-john-clare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robgoll.com\/content\/audio-recordings\/i-am-john-clare\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am &#8211; John Clare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poem 77 - 100 days of poetry<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Am - Poem By John Clare by Rob Goll\" width=\"525\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F313159248&show_artwork=true&maxheight=788&maxwidth=525\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nI am: yet what I am none cares or knows,<br \/>\n  My friends forsake me like a memory lost;<br \/>\nI am the self-consumer of my woes,<br \/>\n  They rise and vanish in oblivious host,<br \/>\nLike shades in love and death's oblivion lost;<br \/>\nAnd yet I am, and live with shadows tost<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,<br \/>\n  Into the living sea of waking dreams,<br \/>\nWhere there is neither sense of life nor joys,<br \/>\n  But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems;<br \/>\nAnd een the dearest\u2014that I loved the best\u2014<br \/>\nAre strange\u2014nay, rather stranger than the rest.<\/p>\n<p>I long for scenes where man has never trod;<br \/>\n  A place where woman never smiled or wept;<br \/>\nThere to abide with my Creator, GOD,<br \/>\n  And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept:<br \/>\nUntroubling and untroubled where I lie;<br \/>\nThe grass below\u2014above the vaulted sky.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.robgoll.com%2Fcontent%2Faudio-recordings%2Fi-am-john-clare%2F&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; 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