Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 26, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the field as we came by Last Line: And she beside another lad. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence | ||||||||
Along the field as we came by A year ago, my love and I The aspen over stile and stone Was talking to itself alone. 'Oh who are these that kiss and pass? A country lover and his lass; Two lovers looking to be wed; And time shall put them both to bed, But she shall] lie with earth above, And he beside another love.' And sure enough beneath the tree There walks another love with me, And overhead the aspen heaves Its rainy-sounding silver leaves; And I spell nothing in their stir, But now perhaps they speak to her, And plain for her to understand They talk about a time at hand When I shall sleep with clover clad, And she beside another lad. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROM THE SPANISH by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 17 by JAMES JOYCE SOUTHERN GOTHIC by DONALD JUSTICE THE BEACH IN AUGUST by WELDON KEES THE MAN SPLITTING WOOD IN THE DAYBREAK by GALWAY KINNELL THE SEEKONK WOODS by GALWAY KINNELL A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 1. 1887 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN |
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