Author: A E Housman

The lad came to the door at night, When lovers crown their vows, And whistled soft and out of sight […]

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing […]

Shot? so quick, so clean an ending? Oh that was right, lad, that was brave: Yours was not an ill […]

Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, […]

The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws And grasses in the mead renew their birth, The river to […]

The star-filled seas are smooth tonight From France to England strown; Black towers above Portland light The felon-quarried stone. On […]

Far in a western brookland That bred me long ago The poplars stand and tremble By pools I used to […]

In my own shire, if I was sad, Homely comforters I had: The earth, because my heart was sore, Sorrowed […]

The Sun at noon to higher air, Unharnessing the silver Pair That late before his chariot swam, Rides on the […]

Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough The land and not the sea, And leave the soldiers at their […]