Best Housman Poems

Beyond the moor and mountain crest
In valleys green and still
Ten thousand times I've done my best
And all about the idle hill.

When first my way to fair I took
Beneath the blue of day
For willows in the icy brook
In valleys miles away.

When in the moon the long...

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I knew a land not far from here
where stories kissed goodnight
 - a land like Oz before the storm
when all was black and white.

Yet now as ruby tinted mists
add colour to that time
 - a distant land of spires and farms
awakes as church bells chime.

I...

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