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Along the field as we came by
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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.
Alfred Edward Housman
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Michael Harmon
(7/6/2009 11:31:00 AM) |
Meticulously crafted, as are all of Housman's.
The PH biography notes: '...he argued that poetry should appeal to emotions rather than to the intellect...'
True enough. However, as with all poets who make such statements (i.e. Sydney, Wordsworth) , it may appeal to the 'emotions', but it was crafted by 'emotions' AND 'intellect'. :)
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Emma Adamyan
(7/6/2009 10:26:00 AM) |
it goes like an old nice song-very easy and nice
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Dimitris(Jimmy) Psachos
(7/6/2007 4:45:00 AM) |
Interesting...to a crushial situation is most ironic I ought to say. However, what would happen if life's obstacles were not as joyful as they seem? Sickness and misfortune for the couple in the end.
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