(26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 / Worcestershire)

poet Alfred Edward Housman
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Poems of Alfred Edward Housman

1. 1887 1/3/2003
2. Along The Field as We Came By 12/31/2002
3. As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre 1/3/2003
4. Be Still, My Soul, Be Still 1/3/2003
5. Bredon Hill 1/3/2003
6. Bring, In This Timeless Grave to Throw 1/3/2003
7. Could Man Be Drunk Forever 1/3/2003
8. Diffugere Nives 1/3/2003
9. Eight O'Clock 1/3/2003
10. Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries 1/3/2003
11. Far In a Western Brookland 1/3/2003
12. Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree 1/3/2003
13. Fragment of a Greek Tragedy 12/31/2002
14. From Far, From Eve and Morning 1/3/2003
15. Here Dead We Lie 12/24/2003
16. Ho, everyone that thirsteth 1/3/2003
17. Hughley Steeple 1/3/2003
18. I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded 1/3/2003
19. If By Chance Your Eye Offend You 1/3/2003
20. If Truth in Hearts That Perish 1/3/2003

Diffugere Nives

Horace, Odes, iv, 7

The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws
And grasses in the mead renew their birth,
The river to the river-bed withdraws,
And altered is the fashion of the earth.

The Nymphs and Graces three put off their fear
And unapparelled in the woodland play.

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