Housman Poems - Poems about Housman

...When I Was One-and-Twenty A. E. Housman When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, “Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearl......Read the rest...

...I pop a little white moon from the packet of fifty as pain's tidal wave pulls at the shoreline of me and springs a summer of shocks, where words and their smiles are the only saving antidotes I've......Read the rest...

...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 dista......Read the rest...

...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 wi......Read the rest...

...Various Heresies 4 I, Lazarus by Michael R. Burch I, Lazarus, without a heart, devoid of blood and spiritless, lay in the darkness, meritless: my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart. But th......Read the rest...

...Epigrams/Epitaphs Childless by Michael R. Burch How can she bear her grief? Mightier than Atlas, she shoulders the weight of one fallen star. *** Laughter’s Cry by Michael R. Burch ......Read the rest...

...Poems about Poets I The Wonder Boys by Michael R. Burch for Leslie Mellichamp The stars were always there, too-bright cliches: scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew as baffled poet......Read the rest...

...Mayflies by Michael R. Burch These standing stones have stood the test of time but who are you and what are you ......Read the rest...

...Epitaph for a Palestinian Child by Michael R. Burch I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide. Autumn Conundrum by Michael R. Burch It's n......Read the rest...

...Sex Hex by Michael R. Burch Love’s full of cute paradoxes (and highly acute poxes). Love by Michael R. Burch Love is either wholly folly, or fully holy. Nun Fun Undone by Mic......Read the rest...

...Come Down by Michael R. Burch for Harold Bloom Come down, O, come down from your high mountain tower. How coldly the wind blows, how late this chill hour ... and I cannot wait for a met......Read the rest...

...The Clockhouse's A. E. Housman Suite at Halloween Alfred Edward Housman's apparition Recites "A quieter place than Clun(ton) Where doomsday may thunder and lighten"* A E......Read the rest...

...If Housman lived today and spoke of Terrance, would rhyme and structure be his "stupid stuff?" If he could wax poetic now, what would it be that killed the cow? Can image and the music be enough?......Read the rest...

...Poets Speak of Us Shakespeare once said, "Such is my love, to thee I so belong, That for thy right myself will bear all wrong." Blake once said, "So when she speaks, the voice of Heaven I he......Read the rest...