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Alfred Edward Housman

26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936


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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: Wake not for the world-heard thunder 24350
2: As I gird on for fighting As I gird on for fighting 16523
3: Astronomy The Wain upon the northern steep 12466
4: Could man be drunk for ever Could man be drunk for ever 8513
5: Eight O’clock He stood, and heard the steeple 8531
6: Epitaph On An Army Of Mercenaries These, in the day when heaven was falling, 8550
7: Epithalamium He is here, Urania’s son, 44593
8: Fancy’s Knell When lads were home from labour 40455
9: Grenadier The Queen she sent to look for me, 20453
10: Hell’s Gate Onward led the road again 104499
11: Her strong enchantments failing, Her strong enchantments failing, 12531
12: Illic Jacet Oh hard is the bed they have made him, 16442
13: In midnights of November, In midnights of November, 24529
14: In the morning, in the morning, In the morning, in the morning, 8484
15: In valleys green and still In valleys green and still 20467
16: Lancer I ‘listed at home for a lancer, 26472
17: Now dreary dawns the eastern light, Now dreary dawns the eastern light, 8583
18: Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough 10439
19: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - I - 1887 From Clee to heaven the beacon burns, 32522
20: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - II Loveliest of trees, the cherry now 12486
21: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - III - The Recruit Leave your home behind, lad, 28446
22: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - IV - Reveille Wake: the silver dusk returning 24438
23: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - IX On moonlit heath and lonesome bank 32458
24: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - L Clunton and Clunbury, 28442
25: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LI Loitering with a vacant eye 26502
26: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LII Far in a western brookland 16446
27: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LIII - The True Lover The lad came to the door at night, 36421
28: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LIV With rue my heart is laden 8563
29: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LIX - The Isle Of Portland The star-filled seas are smooth to-night 12439
30: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LV Westward on the high-hilled plains 16420
31: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LVI - The Day Of Battle Far I hear the bugle blow 16428
32: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LVII You smile upon your friend to-day, 8450
33: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LVIII When I came last to Ludlow 8436
34: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LX Now hollow fires burn out to black, 8473
35: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LXI - Hughley Steeple The vane on Hughley steeple 24440
36: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LXII Terence, this is stupid stuff: 76466
37: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LXIII I Hoed and trenched and weeded, 16467
38: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - V Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers 32434
39: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - VI When the lad for longing sighs, 12458
40: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - VII When smoke stood up from Ludlow, 30435
41: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - VIII Farewell to barn and stack and tree, 24478
42: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - X - MARCH The sun at noon to higher air, 20485
43: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XI On your midnight pallet lying 14468
44: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XII When I watch the living meet, 16439
45: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XIII When I was one-and-twenty 16453
46: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XIV There pass the careless people 20440
47: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XIX - To An Athlete Dying Young The time you won your town the race 28474
48: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XL Into my heart an air that kills 8445
49: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XLI In my own shire, if I was sad 32457
50: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XLII - The Merry Guide Once in the wind of morning 60423
51: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XLIII - The Immortal Part When I meet the morning beam, 44475
52: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XLIV Shot? so quick, so clean an ending? 28466
53: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XLIX Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly: 12474
54: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XLV If it chance your eye offend you, 8443
55: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XLVI Bring, in this timeless grave to throw, 22458
56: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XLVII - The Carpenter's Son Here the hangman stops his cart: 28447
57: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XLVIII Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle, 16469
58: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XV Look not in my eyes, for fear 16437
59: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XVI It nods and curtseys and recovers 8449
60: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XVII Twice a week the winter thorough 12467
61: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XVIII Oh, when I was in love with you, 8466
62: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XX Oh fair enough are sky and plain, 16459
63: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXI - Bredon Hill [1] In summertime on Bredon 35566
64: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXII The street sounds to the soldiers' tread, 12458
65: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXIII The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair, 16443
66: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXIV Say, lad, have you things to do? 12450
67: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXIX - The Lent Lily Tis spring; come out to ramble 20454
68: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXV This time of year a twelvemonth past, 16406
69: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXVI Along the fields as we came by 20505
70: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXVII Is my team ploughing, 32430
71: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXVIII - The Welsh Marches High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam 36409
72: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXX Others, I am not the first, 16477
73: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXXI On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble; 20475
74: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXXII From far, from eve and morning 12426
75: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXXIII If truth in hearts that perish 16406
76: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXXIV - The New Mistress Oh, sick I am to see you, will you never let me be? 16467
77: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXXIX Tis time, I think by Wenlock town 12417
78: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXXV On the idle hill of summer, 16455
79: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXXVI White in the moon the long road lies, 16451
80: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXXVII As through the wild green hills of Wyre 36462
81: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXXVIII The winds out of the west land blow, 20442
82: Revolution West and away the wheels of darkness roll, 12455
83: September 1922 We’ll to the weeds no more, 12499
84: Sinner’s Rue I walked alone and thinking, 20516
85: Soldier from the wars returning, Soldier from the wars returning, 16447
86: Spring Morning Star and coronal and bell 24611
87: Tell me not here, it needs not saying, Tell me not here, it needs not saying, 30429
88: The chestnut casts his flambeaux The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers 28454
89: The Culprit The night my father got me 25432
90: The Deserter What sound awakened me, I wonder, 36491
91: The fairies break their dances The fairies break their dances 8501
92: The First Of May The orchards half the way 32441
93: The half-moon westers low, my love, The half-moon westers low, my love, 8499
94: The laws of God, the laws of man, The laws of God, the laws of man, 24436
95: The night is freezing fast, The night is freezing fast, 12420
96: The Oracles Tis mute, the word they went to hear on high Dodona mountain 16491
97: The rain, The rain, it streams on stone and hillock, 25504
98: The sigh that heaves the grasses The sigh that heaves the grasses 8506
99: The sloe was lost in flower, The sloe was lost in flower, 8457
100: The West Beyond the moor and the mountain crest 44483
101: When first my way to fair I took When first my way to fair I took 12429
102: When I would muse in boyhood When I would muse in boyhood 16449
103: When summer’s end is nighing When summer’s end is nighing 35480
104: When the eye of day is shut, When the eye of day is shut, 16462
105: Yonder see the morning blink: Yonder see the morning blink: 10438




About:
Alfred Edward Housman, usually known as A.E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900. Their wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside, in spare language and distinctive imagery, appealed strongly to late Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian taste, and to many early twentieth century English composers both before and after the First World War. Through their song-settings the poetry therefore became closely associated with that era, and with Shropshire itself.


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