XIII: The Deserter (A E Housman Poems)
`What sound awakened me, I wonder, For now 'tis dumb.'`Wheels on the road most like, or thunder: Lie down; 'twas ...
`What sound awakened me, I wonder, For now 'tis dumb.'`Wheels on the road most like, or thunder: Lie down; 'twas ...
From Clee to heaven the beacon burns, The shires have seen it plain, From north and south the sign returns ...
Shot? so quick, so clean an ending? Oh that was right, lad, that was brave: Yours was not an ill ...
I 'listed at home for a lancer, Oh who would not sleep with the brave?I 'listed at home for a ...
The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair, There's men from the barn and the forge ...
Wake not for the world-heard thunder, Nor the chimes that earthquakes toll; Stars may plot in heaven with planet, Lightning ...
Oh hard is the bed they have made him, And common the blanket and cheap;But there he will lie as ...
When I would muse in boyhood The wild green woods among,And nurse resolves and fancies Because the world was young,It ...
As I gird on for fighting My sword upon my thigh,I think on old ill fortunes Of better men than ...
Oh, when I was in love with you,Then I was clean and brave,And miles around the wonder grewHow well did ...
The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair, There's men from the barn and the forge ...
From Clee to heaven the beacon burns, The shires have seen it plain, From north and south the sign returns ...
Shot? so quick, so clean an ending? Oh that was right, lad, that was brave: Yours was not an ill ...
Loitering with a vacant eye Along the Grecian gallery, And brooding on my heavy ill, I met a statue standing ...
Oh, when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew ...
Wake not for the world-heard thunder, Nor the chimes that earthquakes toll; Stars may plot in heaven with planet, Lightning ...
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