A. E. Housman (1859-1936)

A Shropshire Lad

Table of Contents

• 1887
• Loviest of trees, the cherry now
• The Recruit
• Reveille
• Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers
• When the lad for longing sighs
• When smoke stood up from Ludlow
• Farewell to barn and stack and tree
• On moonlit heath and lonesome bank
• March
• On your midnight pallet lying
• When I watch the living meet
• When I was one-and-twenty
• There pass the careless people
• Look not in my eyes, for fear
• It nods and curtseys and recovers
• Twice a week the winter thorough
• Oh, when I was in love with you
• To an Athlete Dying Young
• Oh fair enough are sky and plain
• Bredon Hill
• The street sounds to the soldiers’ tread
• The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair
• Say, lad, have you things to do?
• This time of year a twelvemonth past
• Along the field as we came by
• Is my team ploughing?
• The Welsh Marches
• The Lent Lily
• Others, I am not the first
• On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble
• From far, from eve and morning
• If truth in hearts that perish
• The New Mistress
• On the idle hill of summer
• White in the moon the long road lies
• As through the wild green hills of Wyre
• The winds out of the west land blow
• ’Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town
• Into my heart an air that kills
• In my own shire, if I was sad
• The Merry Guide
• The Immortal Part
• Shot? so quick, so clean an ending?
• If by chance your eye offend you
• Bring, in this timeless grave to throw
• The Carpenter’s Son
• Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle
• Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly
• Clunton and Clunbury
• Loitering with a vacant eye
• Far in a western brookland
• The True Lover
• With rue my heart is laden
• Westward on the high-hilled plains
• The Day of Battle
• You smile upon your friend to-day
• When I came last to Ludlow
• The Isle of Portland
• Now hollow fires burn out to black
• Hughley Steeple
• Terence, this is stupid stuff
• I hoed and trenched and weeded

Catalogue of Titles

1887