Literature
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A Shropshire Lad – VIII by A. E. Housman
“Farewell to barn and stack and tree,Farewell to Severn shore.Terence, look your last at me,For I come home no more.…
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A Shropshire Lad – XI by A. E. Housman
On your midnight pallet lyingListen, and undo the door:Lads that waste the light in sighingIn the dark should sigh no…
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A Shropshire Lad – XII by A. E. Housman
When I watch the living meet,And the moving pageant fileWarm and breathing through the streetWhere I lodge a little while,…
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A Shropshire Lad – XIII by A. E. Housman
When I was one-and-twentyI heard a wise man say,“Give crowns and pounds and guineasBut not your heart away;Give pearls away…
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A Shropshire Lad – XIV by A. E. Housman
There pass the careless peopleThat call their souls their own:Here by the road I loiter,How idle and alone. Ah, past…
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A Shropshire Lad – XIX – To An Athlete Dying Young by A. E. Housman
To An Athlete Dying Young was published in Housman’s collection of 63 poems in A Shropshire Lad (1896). Housman self-published…
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A Shropshire Lad – XL by A. E. Housman
Into my heart an air that killsFrom yon far country blows:What are those blue remembered hills,What spires, what farms are…
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A Shropshire Lad – XLI by A. E. Housman
In my own shire, if I was sadHomely comforters I had:The earth, because my heart was sore,Sorrowed for the son…
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A Shropshire Lad – XLIII – The Immortal Part by A. E. Housman
The Immortal Part 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 – XLII – The Merry Guide by A. E. Housman
The Merry Guide was published in Housman’s collection of 63 poems in A Shropshire Lad (1896). Housman self-published the book…
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