When I Was One and Twenty

A. E. Housman

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
'Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.'
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
'The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.'
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

Infant Innocence

A. E. Housman

The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild;
He has devoured the infant child.
The infant child is not aware
It has been eaten by the bear.

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With Rue My Heart Is Laden

A.E. Housman (1859-1936)

With rue my heart is laden
     For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
     And many a lightfoot lad.

By brooks to broad for leaping
     The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose lipt girls are sleeping
     In fields where roses fade.

2008: Oread by H.D.