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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 16524
3: Astronomy The Wain upon the northern steep 12467
4: Could man be drunk for ever Could man be drunk for ever 8514
5: Eight O’clock He stood, and heard the steeple 8532
6: Epitaph On An Army Of Mercenaries These, in the day when heaven was falling, 8552
7: Epithalamium He is here, Urania’s son, 44595
8: Fancy’s Knell When lads were home from labour 40456
9: Grenadier The Queen she sent to look for me, 20454
10: Hell’s Gate Onward led the road again 104500
11: Her strong enchantments failing, Her strong enchantments failing, 12533
12: Illic Jacet Oh hard is the bed they have made him, 16442
13: In midnights of November, In midnights of November, 24531
14: In the morning, in the morning, In the morning, in the morning, 8485
15: In valleys green and still In valleys green and still 20469
16: Lancer I ‘listed at home for a lancer, 26476
17: Now dreary dawns the eastern light, Now dreary dawns the eastern light, 8584
18: Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough 10440
19: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - I - 1887 From Clee to heaven the beacon burns, 32523
20: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - II Loveliest of trees, the cherry now 12487
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 24439
23: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - IX On moonlit heath and lonesome bank 32459
24: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - L Clunton and Clunbury, 28444
25: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LI Loitering with a vacant eye 26503
26: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LII Far in a western brookland 16449
27: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LIII - The True Lover The lad came to the door at night, 36422
28: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LIV With rue my heart is laden 8565
29: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LIX - The Isle Of Portland The star-filled seas are smooth to-night 12440
30: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LV Westward on the high-hilled plains 16421
31: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LVI - The Day Of Battle Far I hear the bugle blow 16430
32: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LVII You smile upon your friend to-day, 8451
33: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LVIII When I came last to Ludlow 8438
34: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LX Now hollow fires burn out to black, 8474
35: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LXI - Hughley Steeple The vane on Hughley steeple 24441
36: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LXII Terence, this is stupid stuff: 76468
37: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - LXIII I Hoed and trenched and weeded, 16468
38: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - V Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers 32436
39: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - VI When the lad for longing sighs, 12459
40: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - VII When smoke stood up from Ludlow, 30437
41: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - VIII Farewell to barn and stack and tree, 24479
42: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - X - MARCH The sun at noon to higher air, 20486
43: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XI On your midnight pallet lying 14469
44: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XII When I watch the living meet, 16442
45: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XIII When I was one-and-twenty 16454
46: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XIV There pass the careless people 20441
47: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XIX - To An Athlete Dying Young The time you won your town the race 28475
48: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XL Into my heart an air that kills 8447
49: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XLI In my own shire, if I was sad 32458
50: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XLII - The Merry Guide Once in the wind of morning 60424
51: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XLIII - The Immortal Part When I meet the morning beam, 44477
52: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XLIV Shot? so quick, so clean an ending? 28467
53: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XLIX Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly: 12475
54: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XLV If it chance your eye offend you, 8444
55: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XLVI Bring, in this timeless grave to throw, 22459
56: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XLVII - The Carpenter's Son Here the hangman stops his cart: 28449
57: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XLVIII Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle, 16470
58: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XV Look not in my eyes, for fear 16438
59: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XVI It nods and curtseys and recovers 8450
60: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XVII Twice a week the winter thorough 12468
61: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XVIII Oh, when I was in love with you, 8467
62: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XX Oh fair enough are sky and plain, 16460
63: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXI - Bredon Hill [1] In summertime on Bredon 35568
64: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXII The street sounds to the soldiers' tread, 12459
65: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXIII The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair, 16444
66: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXIV Say, lad, have you things to do? 12451
67: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXIX - The Lent Lily Tis spring; come out to ramble 20455
68: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXV This time of year a twelvemonth past, 16407
69: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXVI Along the fields as we came by 20508
70: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXVII Is my team ploughing, 32431
71: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXVIII - The Welsh Marches High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam 36412
72: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXX Others, I am not the first, 16479
73: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXXI On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble; 20477
74: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXXII From far, from eve and morning 12427
75: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXXIII If truth in hearts that perish 16407
76: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXXIV - The New Mistress Oh, sick I am to see you, will you never let me be? 16469
77: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXXIX Tis time, I think by Wenlock town 12421
78: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXXV On the idle hill of summer, 16456
79: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXXVI White in the moon the long road lies, 16452
80: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXXVII As through the wild green hills of Wyre 36464
81: Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXXVIII The winds out of the west land blow, 20444
82: Revolution West and away the wheels of darkness roll, 12456
83: September 1922 We’ll to the weeds no more, 12501
84: Sinner’s Rue I walked alone and thinking, 20516
85: Soldier from the wars returning, Soldier from the wars returning, 16449
86: Spring Morning Star and coronal and bell 24613
87: Tell me not here, it needs not saying, Tell me not here, it needs not saying, 30430
88: The chestnut casts his flambeaux The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers 28456
89: The Culprit The night my father got me 25433
90: The Deserter What sound awakened me, I wonder, 36492
91: The fairies break their dances The fairies break their dances 8502
92: The First Of May The orchards half the way 32443
93: The half-moon westers low, my love, The half-moon westers low, my love, 8500
94: The laws of God, the laws of man, The laws of God, the laws of man, 24438
95: The night is freezing fast, The night is freezing fast, 12421
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, 25507
98: The sigh that heaves the grasses The sigh that heaves the grasses 8507
99: The sloe was lost in flower, The sloe was lost in flower, 8458
100: The West Beyond the moor and the mountain crest 44486
101: When first my way to fair I took When first my way to fair I took 12431
102: When I would muse in boyhood When I would muse in boyhood 16451
103: When summer’s end is nighing When summer’s end is nighing 35482
104: When the eye of day is shut, When the eye of day is shut, 16463
105: Yonder see the morning blink: Yonder see the morning blink: 10440




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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