With Rue My Heart Is Laden

A. E. Housman(1859–1936)

A Shropshire Lad, 1896

With rue my heart is ladenFor golden friends I had,For many a rose-lipt maidenAnd many a lightfoot lad.

By brooks too broad for leapingThe lightfoot boys are laid;The rose-lipt girls are sleepingIn fields where roses fade.

From A Shropshire Lad (1896), via the English Wikisource transcription.

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