A E Housman's Poetry, by written

• Fragment of a Greek Tragedy

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

  94 lines, 1 comment
• With rue my heart is laden

  With rue my heart is laden
  For golden friends I had,

  8 lines, 2 comments
• II: Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now

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

  13 lines, 2 comments
• The Grizzly Bear

  The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild
  It has devoured the little child.

  4 lines, 2 comments
• XIII: When I Was One-and-Twenty

  When I was one-and-twenty
      I heard a wise man say,

  16 lines, 2 comments
• XII: The Laws of God, The Laws of Man

  The laws of God, the laws of man,
  He may keep that will and can;

  23 lines
• XVIII: Oh Who Is That Young Sinner with the Handcuffs on his Wrists

  Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?
  And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists?

  18 lines, 4 comments
• LXII: Terence, This is Stupid Stuff

  "Terence, this is stupid stuff!
  You eat your victuals fast enough;

  78 lines, 4 comments
• XII: When I Watch the Living Meet

  When I watch the living meet
  And the moving pageant file

  18 lines
• XXXV: On the Idle Hill of Summer

  On the idle hill of summer,
    Sleepy with the flow of streams,

  18 lines
• XIX: To an Athlete Dying Young

  The time you won your town the race
  We chaired you through the market-place;

  33 lines, 2 comments
• Oh fair enough are sky and plain

  Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
  But I know fairer far:

  16 lines
• The Lent Lily

  'Tis spring; come out to ramble
  The hilly brakes around,

  20 lines
• Oh, see how thick the goldcup flowers

  Oh, see how thick the goldcup flowers
  Are lying in field and lane,

  32 lines
• Look not in my eyes, for fear

  Look not in my eyes, for fear
  Thy mirror true the sight I see,

  16 lines
• The Rainy Pleiads Wester

  The rainy Pleiads wester,
  Orion plunges prone,

  8 lines
• XVIII: Oh, when I was in love with you

  Oh, when I was in love with you,
  Then I was clean and brave,

  8 lines, 1 comment
• The Stinging Nettle

  The stinging nettle only
  Will still be found to stand:

  10 lines
• XL: Tell me not here, it needs not saying

  Tell me not here, it needs not saying,
    What tune the enchantress plays

  33 lines
• Stars

  Stars, I have seen them fall,
  But when they drop and die

  8 lines
• IV: Reveille

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

  28 lines, 1 comment
• XXXI: Wenlock Edge

  On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;
  His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;

  23 lines
• I:1887

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

  38 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
• XLVIII: Be Still, My Soul, Be Still; the Arms you Bear are Brittle

  Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,
  Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.

  18 lines
• XXI: Bredon Hill

  In summertime on Bredon
  The bells they sound so clear;

  40 lines, 4 comments
• XLVI: Bring, In This Timeless Grave to Throw

  Bring, in this timeless grave to throw,
  No cypress, sombre on the snow;

  22 lines
• X: Could Man Be Drunk Forever

  Could man be drunk for ever
  With liquor, love, or fights,

  8 lines
• Diffugere Nives

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

  30 lines

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