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 ...
Horace, Odes, iv, 7The snows are fled away, leaves on the shawsAnd grasses in the mead renew their birth,The river ...
In summertime on BredonThe bells they sound so clear;Round both the shires they ring themIn steeples far and near,A happy ...
Oh hard is the bed they have made him, And common the blanket and cheap;But there he will lie as ...
White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road ...
If truth in hearts that perish Could move the powers on high, I think the love I bear you Should ...
On your midnight pallet lying, Listen, and undo the door: Lads that waste the light in sighing In the dark ...
It is no gift I tender, A loan is all I can;But do not scorn the lender; Man gets no ...
I promise nothing: friends will part; All things may end, for all began;And truth and singleness of heart Are mortal ...
The half-moon westers low, my love, And the wind brings up the rain;And wide apart lie we, my love, And ...
Oh, when I was in love with you,Then I was clean and brave,And miles around the wonder grewHow well did ...
Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning And lief lie ...
You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is ...
The sloe was lost in flower, The April elm was dim;That was the lover's hour, The hour for lies and ...
On your midnight pallet lying, Listen, and undo the door: Lads that waste the light in sighing In the dark ...
It nods and curtseys and recovers When the wind blows above, The nettle on the graves of lovers That hanged ...
Oh, see how thick the goldcup flowers Are lying in field and lane, With dandelions to tell the hours That ...
When the lad for longing sighs, Mute and dull of cheer and pale, If at death's own door he lies, ...
LXI The vane on Hughley steeple Veers bright, a far-known sign, And there lie Hughley people, And there lie friends ...
ALONG the field as we came by A year ago, my love and I, The aspen over stile and stone ...
White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road ...
If truth in hearts that perish Could move the powers on high, I think the love I bear you Should ...
"Farewell to barn and stack and tree, Farewell to Severn shore. Terence, look your last at me, For I come ...
"Here the hangman stops his cart: Now the best of friends must part. Fare you well, for ill fare I: ...
The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws And grasses in the mead renew their birth, The river to ...
Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning And lief lie ...
The lad came to the door at night, When lovers crown their vows, And whistled soft and out of sight ...
In summertime on Bredon The bells they sound so clear; Round both the shires they ring them In steeples far ...
You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is ...
Oh, when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew ...
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