Poetry
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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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A Shropshire Lad – XLIV by A. E. Housman
Shot? so quick, so clean an ending?Oh that was right, lad, that was brave:Yours was not an ill for mending,‘Twas…
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A Shropshire Lad – XLIX by A. E. Housman
Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly:Why should men make haste to die?Empty heads and tongues a-talkingMake the rough road…
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A Shropshire Lad – XLV by A. E. Housman
If it chance your eye offend you,Pluck it out, lad, and be sound:‘Twill hurt, but here are salves to friend…
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A Shropshire Lad – XLVI by A. E. Housman
Bring, in this timeless grave to throw,No cypress, sombre on the snow;Snap not from the bitter yewHis leaves that live…
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