With Rue My Heart Is Laden
Read A. E. Housman’s With Rue My Heart Is Laden with the full poem and an in-depth analysis of youth, loss, and the ache of remembrance.
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4 poems
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Loveliest of Trees
A twenty-year-old does the math on how many springs he has left and decides to spend them looking at a tree. The least dramatic carpe diem in English, and one of the most exact.
When I Was One-and-Twenty
A. E. Housman’s “When I Was One-and-Twenty” reflects on youth, love, and regret through simple, lyrical verse.
A. E. Housman
Explore the life and poetry of A. E. Housman — the classical scholar and lyric poet whose restraint and melancholy shaped modern English verse.