A E Housman's Poetry, by title

• II: As I Gird on for Fighting

  As I gird on for fighting
    My sword upon my thigh,

  18 lines
• IV: Illic Jacet

  Oh hard is the bed they have made him,
    And common the blanket and cheap;

  18 lines
• XI: Yonder See the Morning Blink

  Yonder see the morning blink:
    The sun is up, and up must I,

  11 lines, 1 comment
• Along the field as we came by

  ALONG the field as we came by
  A year ago, my love and I,

  21 lines, 2 comments
• As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre

  As through the wild green hills of Wyre
  The train ran, changing sky and shire,

  37 lines, 1 comment
• Because I Like You Better

  Because I liked you better
  Than suits a man to say,

  19 lines
• Diffugere Nives

  Horace, Odes, iv, 7
  The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws

  30 lines
• Excelsior: the Shades of Night

  The shades of night were falling fast
  And the rain was falling faster,

  25 lines, 1 comment
• Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree

  Farewell to barn and stack and tree,
  Farewell to Severn shore.

  28 lines
• Fragment of a Greek Tragedy

  CHORUS: O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots
  Head of a trave

  94 lines, 1 comment
• Hughley Steeple

  The vane on Hughley steeple
  Veers bright, a far-known sign,

  24 lines
• I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded

  I hoed and trenched and weeded,
  And took the flowers to fair:

  16 lines
• I: Easter Hymn

  If in that Syrian garden, ages slain,
  You sleep, and know not you are dead in vain,

  12 lines
• I:1887

  From Clee to heaven the beacon burns,
  The shires have seen it plain,

  38 lines, 1 comment
• If By Chance Your Eye Offend You

  If by chance your eye offend you,
  Pluck it out, lad, and be sound:

  8 lines
• II: Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now

  Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
  Is hung with bloom along the bough,

  13 lines, 2 comments
• II: When Israel out of Egypt Came

  When Israel out of Egypt came
    Safe in the sea they trod;

  33 lines
• III: For These of Old the Trader

  For these of old the trader
    Unpearled the Indian seas,

  28 lines
• III: When Adam Walked in Eden Young

  When Adam walked in Eden young,
    Happy, 'tis writ, was he,

  13 lines
• In Valleys of Springs and Rivers

  Clunton and Clunbury,
    Clungunford and Clun,

  34 lines
• Into My Heart an Air that Kills

  Into my heart an air that kills
  From yon far country blows:

  8 lines
• Is My Team Ploughing

  "Is my team ploughing,
  That I was used to drive

  32 lines
• It Nods and Curtseys and Recovers

  It nods and curtseys and recovers
  When the wind blows above,

  8 lines
• IV: It s No Gift I Tender

  It is no gift I tender,
    A loan is all I can;

  13 lines
• IV: Reveille

  Wake: the silver dusk returning
      Up the beach of darkness brims,

  28 lines, 1 comment
• IX: On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank

  On moonlit heath and lonesome bank
  The sheep beside me graze;

  38 lines
• IX: The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux and the Flowers

  The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers
  Stream from the hawthorn on the wind away,

  33 lines
• IX: When the Bells Justle in The Tower

  When the bells justle in the tower
    The hollow night amid,

  3 lines
• LII: Far In a Western Brookland

  Far in a western brookland
  That bred me long ago

  18 lines
• Loitering with a Vacant Eye

  Loitering with a vacant eye
  Along the Grecian gallery,

  26 lines

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