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Born in March 26, 1859 / Died in April 30, 1936 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Alfred Edward Housman

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A Shropshire Lad XIX: The time you won your town the race

... lock to gaze the strengthless dead,And find unwithered on its curlsThe garland briefer than a girl's ...

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Terence, This is Stupid Stuff

... Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad!" Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, ...

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When I Was One-and-Twenty

... "Give crowns and pounds and guineas ...

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Is My Team Ploughing

... I cheer a dead man's sweetheart, ...

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Eight O'Clock

... One, two, three, four, to market-place and people ...

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Stars

... Stars, I have seen them fall, ...

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Twice a Week the Winter Thorough

... Keeps the bones of man from lying ...

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With Rue My Heart Is Laden

... The rose-lipt girls are sleeping ...

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The Day of Battle

... Are not wept so well at home, "Therefore, though the best is bad, ...

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The Laws of God, The Laws of Man

... Though both are foolish, both are strong ...

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Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries

... These, in the day when heaven was falling, ...

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Into My Heart an Air that Kills

... What are those blue remembered hills, ...

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Be Still, My Soul, Be Still

... Think rather,-- call to thought, if now you grieve a little, ...

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On the Idle Hill of Summer

... Dear to friends and food for powder, ...

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The Grizzly Bear

... The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild ...