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Subject: HOUSMAN, ALFRED EDWARD (1859-1936)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANOTHER EPITAPH ON AN ARMY OF MERCENARIES; REPLY TO HOUSMAN, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a god-damned lie to say that these
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); War


ANOTHER EPITAPH ON AN ARMY OF MERCENARIES; REPLY TO HOUSMAN, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a god-damned lie to say that these
Last Line: In spite of all their kind some elements of worth %with difficulty persist here and there on earth
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); War


FOR A. E. HOUSMAN, by GLADYS MCKEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The shropshire lad has gone away
Last Line: The shropshire lad has gone away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Iker, Eugene E., Mrs.
Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936)


FRESHMAN ENGLISH: WHAT COUNTS, by MARK VINZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Different students tell me differently
Last Line: To find some blossoms of our own, %and never came back
Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); Schools


LADS OF THE VILLAGE, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lads of the village, we read in the lay
Last Line: Or upon any field of experience where pain makes patterns %the poet slanders
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie
Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


MISREADING HOUSMAN, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On this first day of spring, snow
Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936)


MISREADING HOUSMAN, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On this first day of spring, snow
Last Line: Whispering: relax, there is nothing %you can possibly do about any of this
Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936)


MR. HOUSMAN'S MESSAGE, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O woe, woe
Last Line: Oh, woe, woe, woe, etcetera. . . .
Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936)


OBSERVATION BY A FORMERLY ROSE-LIPT MAIDEN, by JOYCE LA MERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the lads who were lightfoot
Last Line: Just isn't the brook
Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


SHROPSHIRE LAD, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gas was on in the institute
Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936)


SHROPSHIRE LAD'S FIANCEE, by GAIL WHITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since, as you most justly say
Last Line: You talked to me the other day
Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


THOUGHTS, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was reading in the world book about a. E.
Last Line: Alive can hold you in his arms and dry your eyes
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936)