PagineAlfred Edward Housman was a professor of Latin at Cambridge who published one small book of poems that became one of the best-loved in English. A Shropshire Lad (1896) uses plain ballad rhythms to write about youth, the countryside, love and early death.
Poems published before 1930, now in the public domain.
Source editions for the poems on this page (public domain):
Yes. A. E. Housman’s poems published before 1930 are in the public domain, and you can read 11 of them here or as a flip book.
A Shropshire Lad (1896), Last Poems (1922).