Poets/A. E. Housman

A. E. Housman

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Soldier from the wars returning, …

A. E. Housman

From Clee to heaven the beacon burns, …

A. E. Housman

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now …

A. E. Housman

When I watch the living meet, …

A. E. Housman

Along the field as we came by …

A. E. Housman

Others, I am not the first, …

A. E. Housman

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble; …

A. E. Housman

On the idle hill of summer, …

A. E. Housman

Far in a western brookland …

A. E. Housman

The lad came to the door at night, …

A. E. Housman

These, in the days when heaven was falling, …

A. E. Housman

He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? …

A. E. Housman

“Is my team ploughing, …

A. E. Housman

The time you won your town the race …

A. E. Housman

As we went walking far and wide …

A. E. Housman

When I was one-and-twenty …

A. E. Housman

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