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Alfred Edward Housman
(26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 / Worcestershire)
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Usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900. Their wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside, .. .. more >>
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1     1887
2     Along The Field as We Came By
3     As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre
4     Be Still, My Soul, Be Still
5     Bredon Hill
6     Bring, In This Timeless Grave to Throw
7     Could Man Be Drunk Forever
8     Diffugere Nives
9     Eight O'Clock
10     Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries
11     Far In a Western Brookland
12     Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree
13     Fragment of a Greek Tragedy
14     From Far, From Eve and Morning
15     Here Dead We Lie
16     Ho, everyone that thirsteth
17     Hughley Steeple
18     I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded
19     If By Chance Your Eye Offend You
20     If Truth in Hearts That Perish
21     In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad
22     In Valleys of Springs and Rivers
23     Into My Heart an Air that Kills
24     Is My Team Ploughing
25     It Nods and Curtseys and Recovers
 

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