Poetry Codex

Victorian

A. E. Housman

1859–1936

A. E. Housman (1859–1936) was an English classical scholar and poet whose reputation rests on two slim volumes, A Shropshire Lad (1896) and Last Poems (1922).

His terse, ballad-like lyrics of doomed youth, soldiering, and rural England were composed in a private grief masked by classical restraint.

Poems (105)

  1. I
  2. II
  3. The Recruit
  4. Reveille
  5. V
  6. VI
  7. VII
  8. VIII
  9. IX
  10. March
  11. XI
  12. XII
  13. XIII
  14. XIV
  15. XV
  16. XVI
  17. XVII
  18. XVIII
  19. To an Athlete Dying Young
  20. XX
  21. Bredon Hill (1)
  22. XXII
  23. XXIII
  24. XXIV
  25. XXV
  26. XXVI
  27. XXVII
  28. The Welsh Marches
  29. The Lent Lily
  30. XXX
  31. XXXI
  32. XXXII
  33. XXXIII
  34. The New Mistress
  35. XXXV
  36. XXXVI
  37. XXXVII
  38. XXXVIII
  39. XXXIX
  40. XL
  41. XLI
  42. The Merry Guide
  43. The Immortal Part
  44. XLIV
  45. XLV
  46. XLVI
  47. The Carpenter's Son
  48. XLVIII
  49. XLIX
  50. L
  51. LI
  52. LII
  53. The True Lover
  54. LIV
  55. LV
  56. The Day of Battle
  57. LVII
  58. LVIII
  59. The Isle of Portland
  60. LX
  61. Hughley Steeple
  62. LXII
  63. LXIII
  64. September 1922
  65. II
  66. III
  67. VII
  68. VIII
  69. IX
  70. X.
  71. XI
  72. XII
  73. XVIII
  74. XIX
  75. XX
  76. XXI
  77. XXII
  78. XXIII
  79. XXVI
  80. XXVII
  81. XXVIII
  82. XXIX
  83. XXXII
  84. XXXIII
  85. The First of May
  86. XXXV
  87. XXXVIII
  88. XXXIX
  89. XL
  90. The West
  91. Illic Jacet
  92. Grenadier
  93. Lancer
  94. The Deserter
  95. The Culprit
  96. Eight O'Clock
  97. Spring Morning
  98. Astronomy
  99. Epithalamium
  100. The Oracles
  101. Sinner's Rue
  102. Hell Gate
  103. XXXVI
  104. Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
  105. Fancy's Knell

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