A. E. Housman

1859–1936

England, 1859–1936. A poet and great Cambridge Latinist; his A Shropshire Lad sings, with simplicity, of youth, death and the English countryside. His work is in the public domain.
  • Loveliest of trees, the cherry now (1896)
  • Into My Heart an Air That Kills (1896)
  • On Wenlock Edge (1896)
  • To an Athlete Dying Young (1896)
  • When I Was One-and-Twenty (1896)
  • With Rue My Heart Is Laden (1896)