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Collected Poems of A. E. Housman
Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936), better known as A. E. Housman
, wrote three volumes of poetry . They were A Shropshire
Lad (1896), Last Poems (1922), and More Poems
(1936). His most frequent themes were adolescence, love, country
living, and the horror of war. The works were first combined into
Collected Poems of A. E. Housman in 1940. Our link
points to the 1983 reprint of that collection.
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When I Was One-and-Twenty
by A. E. Housman (1896)
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.
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