Excelsior: the Shades of Night (A E Housman Poems)
The shades of night were falling fastAnd the rain was falling faster,When through an Alpine village passedAn Alpine village pastor;A ...
The shades of night were falling fastAnd the rain was falling faster,When through an Alpine village passedAn Alpine village pastor;A ...
When I would muse in boyhood The wild green woods among,And nurse resolves and fancies Because the world was young,It ...
When Adam walked in Eden young, Happy, 'tis writ, was he,While high the fruit of knowledge hung Unbitten on the ...
Westward on the high-hilled plains Where for me the world began, Still, I think, in newer veins Frets the changeless ...
Oh, see how thick the goldcup flowers Are lying in field and lane, With dandelions to tell the hours That ...
When smoke stood up from Ludlow, And mist blew off from Teme, And blithe afield to ploughing Against the morning ...
Loitering with a vacant eye Along the Grecian gallery, And brooding on my heavy ill, I met a statue standing ...
The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn, And up from India glances The silver sail of dawn. ...
Once in the wind of morning I ranged the thymy wold; The world-wide air was azure And all the brooks ...
Here dead we lie Because we did not choose To live and shame the land From which we sprung. Life, ...
Twice a week the winter thorough Here stood I to keep the goal: Football then was fighting sorrow For the ...
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