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A Shropshire Lad – XXIX – The Lent Lily by A. E. Housman
The Lent Lily was published in Housman’s collection of 63 poems in A Shropshire Lad (1896). Housman self-published the book…
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A Shropshire Lad – XXV by A. E. Housman
This time of year a twelvemonth past,When Fred and I would meet,We needs must jangle, till at lastWe fought and…
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A Shropshire Lad – XXVI by A. E. Housman
Along the fields as we came byA year ago, my love and I,The aspen over stile and stoneWas talking to…
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A Shropshire Lad – XXVII by A. E. Housman
“Is my team ploughing,That I was used to driveAnd hear the harness jingleWhen I was man alive?” Ay, the horses…
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A Shropshire Lad – XXVIII – The Welsh Marches by A. E. Housman
The Welsh Marches was published in Housman’s collection of 63 poems in A Shropshire Lad (1896). Housman self-published the book…
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A Shropshire Lad – XXX by A. E. Housman
Others, I am not the first,Have willed more mischief than they durst:If in the breathless night I tooShiver now, ‘tis…
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A Shropshire Lad – XXXI by A. E. Housman
On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The gale, it plies the saplings double,And thick on…
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A Shropshire Lad – XXXII by A. E. Housman
From far, from eve and morningAnd yon twelve-winded sky,The stuff of life to knit meBlew hither: here am I. Now-…
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A Shropshire Lad – XXXIII by A. E. Housman
If truth in hearts that perishCould move the powers on high,I think the love I bear youShould make you not…
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A Shropshire Lad – XXXIV – The New Mistress by A. E. Housman
The New Mistress was published in Housman’s collection of 63 poems in A Shropshire Lad (1896). Housman self-published the book…
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