Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries (A. E. Housman Poem)
These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took ...
These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took ...
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, ...
Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all ...
Twice a week the winter thorough Here stood I to keep the goal: Football then was fighting sorrow For the ...
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing ...
"Is my team ploughing, That I was used to drive And hear the harness jingle When I was man alive?" ...
He stood, and heard the steeple Sprinkle the quarters on the morning town. One, two, three, four, to market-place and ...
The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering by, ...
'TERENCE, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see ...
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, "Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart ...
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