If you wake up with a dark figure standing over you, and the figure keeps coming back again, then you know a little of what this poem presents to its readers.
This poem is a 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns based on traditional sources. The song is also referred to by the title My Love is Like A Red and is often published as a poem.
John Clare was an English poet, son of a farm labourer, who became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and sorrows at its disruption.
