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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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Oh fair enough are sky and plain

... These are the thoughts I often think ...

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The Lads in Their Hundreds

... There's chaps from the town and the field and the till and the cart, ...

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There Pass the Careless People

... There flowers no balm to sain him ...

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Ho, everyone that thirsteth

... June suns, you cannot store them ...

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The Stinging Nettle

... That thrives, come sun, come showers ...

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When the Lad for Longing Sighs

... Buy them, buy them: eve and morn ...

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March

... In farm and field through all the shire ...

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I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded

... The solitary stars, And fields will yearly bear them ...

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When I Came Last to Ludlow

... Now Dick lies long in the churchyard, ...

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The rainy Pleiads wester

... The head that I shall dream of ...

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Oh, see how thick the goldcup flowers

... What flowers to-day may flower to-morrow, ...

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When Smoke Stood Up From Ludlow

... It sang the song again: "Lie down, lie down, young yeoman ...

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Far In a Western Brookland

... There, in the windless night-time, ...

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The Welsh Marches

... About the open house of war: When Severn down to Buildwas ran ...

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Say, Lad, Have You Things to Do?

... Quick then, while your day's at prime ...