Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 40, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into my heart an air that kills Last Line: And cannot come again. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): Yon Far Country Subject(s): Loss; Mourning; Time; Bereavement | ||||||||
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires; what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUNGERFIELD by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE MOURNER by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN HECUBA MOURNS by MARILYN NELSON THERE IS NO GOD BUT by AGHA SHAHID ALI IF I COULD MOURN LIKE A MOURNING DOVE by FRANK BIDART A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 1. 1887 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN |
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