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   And far with the brave I have ridden, And now with the brave I shall sleep. For round me the men will be lying That learned me the way to behave, And showed me my business of dying: Oh who would not sleep with the brave? They ask, and there is not an answer; Says I, I will 'list for a lancer, Oh who would not sleep with the brave?

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   And I with the brave shall be sleeping. At ease on my mattress of loam, When back from their taking and keeping. The squadron is riding at home. The wind with the plumes will be playing, The girls will stand watching them wave, And eyeing my comrades and saying.

3. www.housman-society.co.uk › oh-when-i-was-in-loveOh, when I was in love with you | The Housman Society

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   Oh, when I was in love with you: Then I was clean and brave, V: And miles around the wonder grew: How well did I behave. V: And now the fancy passes by: 5: And nothing will remain, V: And miles around they’ll say that I: Q: V: Am quite myself again.

4. interestingliterature.com › 2017 › 0410 of the Best A. E. Housman Poems Everyone Should Read

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   Apr 3, 2017 · We’ve included some of his most famous poems, but have also included some of the poems which, we feel, show Housman doing what he did best: tugging at the heartstrings through skilfully crafted verse. 1. ‘ Loveliest of trees, the cherry now ’.

5. www.poetrycat.com › alfred-edward-housman › lancerLancer by Alfred Edward Housman | Poetry Cat

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   And far with the brave I have ridden, And now with the brave I shall sleep. For round me the men will be lying That learned me the way to behave. And showed me my business of dying: Oh who would not sleep with the brave? They ask and there is not an answer; Says I, I will ‘list for a lancer, Oh who would not sleep with the brave?

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   Jun 2, 2009 · Lie you easy, dream you light, And sleep you fast for aye; And luckier may you find the night Than ever you found the day. LX Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack, And leave your friends and go.

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   What is Housman's poem about?

   • This poem, which was unpublished in Housman’s lifetime and appeared in the posthumous collection More Poems, is about the brevity of happiness and the knowledge that it must inevitably pass, leaving us with the daily struggle of living to get on with.

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   What does Housman feel like in his poems?

   • What, I think, impresses one, thrills, like ecstatic, half-smothered strains of music, floating from unperceived instruments, in Mr. Housman's poems, is the encounter his spirit constantly endures with life. It is, this encounter, what you feel in the Greeks, and as in the Greeks, it is a spiritual waging of miraculous forces.

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   What makes Housman a good poet?

   • There is, too, in Mr. Housman's poems, the singularly Grecian Quality of a clean and fragrant mental and emotional temper, vibrating equally whether the theme dealt with is ruin or defeat, or some great tragic crisis of spirit, or with moods and ardours of pure enjoyment and simplicities of feeling.

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   What is Housman's poem 'heartless witless nature' about?

   • Taken from Housman’s second volume Last Poems (1922) – which, true to its title, was the final collection Housman allowed to be published during his lifetime – this poem muses upon ‘heartless, witless nature’ during the autumn season. The poetry of A. E. Housman is often characterised as self-pitying and even adolescent in its outlook on the world.

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   Oct 27, 2022 · A country to take and to keep; And far with the brave I have ridden, And now with the brave I shall sleep. For round me the men will be lying. That learned me the way to behave, And showed me my business of dying: Oh who would not sleep with the brave? They ask, and there is not an answer; Says I, I will ‘list for a lancer,