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With rue my heart is laden
English source:
Alfred Edward Housman
With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfood lad.
By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfood lad.
By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
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Alfred Edward Housman
Alfred Edward Housman (/26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the…