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Alfred Edward Housman, 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.

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List of poems by Alfred Edward Housman 92 total

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Terence, This is Stupid Stuff
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With Rue My Heart Is Laden
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When I Was One-and-Twenty 742 Views
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From Far, From Eve and Morning
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Eight O'Clock 521 Views
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Say, Lad, Have You Things to Do?
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The Street Sounds to the Soldiers' Tread
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Ho, everyone that thirsteth
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Think No More, Lad
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The Laws of God, The Laws of Man
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Far In a Western Brookland
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Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
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The Isle of Portland 387 Views
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Twice a Week the Winter Thorough
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I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded
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When the Lad for Longing Sighs
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Oh fair enough are sky and plain
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Tis Time, I Think, By Wenlock Town
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On Your Midnight Pallet Lying
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Fragment of a Greek Tragedy
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Here Dead We Lie 247 Views
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The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux
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Oh, when I was in love with you 224 Views
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The Grizzly Bear 215 Views
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Look not in my eyes, for fear
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Diffugere Nives
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Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries
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The New Mistress 209 Views
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Astronomy 196 Views
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Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree
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To an Athlete Dying Young
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Tell me not here, it needs not saying
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1887
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Could Man Be Drunk Forever
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Bredon Hill
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The Lent Lily
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On the Idle Hill of Summer
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If Truth in Hearts That Perish
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Oh Who Is That Young Sinner
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Now Hollow Fires Burn Out to Black 160 Views
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When I Came Last to Ludlow 150 Views
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Is My Team Ploughing 150 Views
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The Welsh Marches
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White in the Moon the Long Road Lies
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O Why Do You Walk (a Parody)
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Stars
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The Immortal Part
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On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank
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The Day of Battle
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The Fairies Break Their Dances 122 Views
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This Time of Year a Twelvemonth Past
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The Winds Out of the West Land Blow
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In Valleys of Springs and Rivers
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Others, I Am Not the First
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As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre
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Into My Heart an Air that Kills 108 Views
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Oh Stay At Home, My Lad 108 Views
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You Smile Upon Your Friend To-Day
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The rainy Pleiads wester 103 Views
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Be Still, My Soul, Be Still
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The Lads in Their Hundreds
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The Stinging Nettle
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On Wenlock Edge The Wood's In Trouble
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Bring, In This Timeless Grave to Throw
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Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending?
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If By Chance Your Eye Offend You
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In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad
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When I Watch the Living Meet
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The Recruit
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March
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There Pass the Careless People
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The True Lover
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Reveille
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When Smoke Stood Up From Ludlow
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Wake Not for the World-Heard Thunder
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Oh, see how thick the goldcup flowers
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Hughley Steeple
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It Nods and Curtseys and Recovers
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The Carpenter's Son
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The Merry Guide
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Along The Field as We Came By
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Loitering with a Vacant Eye 44 Views
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Westward on the High-Hilled Plains 37 Views
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Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - I - 1887
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Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough 31 Views
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Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - II
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Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - IV - Reveille
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Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - III - The Recruit
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Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - IX
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Could man be drunk for ever
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In the morning, in the morning, 8 Views
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Illic Jacet
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