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 […]

“Clunton and Clunbury, Clungunford and Clun, Are the quietest places Under the sun.” In valleys of springs and rivers, By […]

I hoed and trenched and weeded, And took the flowers to fair: I brought them home unheeded; The hue was […]

“Farewell to barn and stack and tree, Farewell to Severn shore. Terence, look your last at me, For I come […]

The rainy Pleiads wester, Orion plunges prone, The stroke of midnight ceases And I lie down alone. The rainy Pleiads […]

“Is my team ploughing, That I was used to drive And hear the harness jingle When I was man alive?” […]