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SELECTED POEMS A. E. Housman 1859–1936

A. E. Housman: Selected Poems

11 public-domain poems · 20 pages · free to read

A short collection of A. E. Housman’s best-loved poems, laid out as a book you can flip through: cover, contents, one poem to a page, and a note about the poet at the end.

Turn pages with the arrows, arrow keys or a swipe. A− / A+ changes the text size; Esc closes the book.

Contents

  1. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now (open in book)
  2. Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers (open in book)
  3. When smoke stood up from Ludlow (open in book)
  4. When I was one-and-twenty (open in book)
  5. To an Athlete Dying Young (open in book)
  6. Along the fields as we came by (open in book)
  7. From far, from eve and morning (open in book)
  8. Into my heart an air that kills (open in book)
  9. Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly (open in book)
  10. With rue my heart is laden (open in book)
  11. Now hollow fires burn out to black (open in book)

The poems in this collection are in the public domain. This is a reading edition, not a Pagine Original.

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