A. E. Housman



A Shropshire Lad

Into my heart
an air that kills




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A. E. Housman (1859-1936)

A Shropshire Lad



Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.





’Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town


In my own shire, if I was sad