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A.E. Housman: A Shropshire Lad

Read by Samuel West

A.E. Housman: A Shropshire Lad

A.E. Housman: A Shropshire Lad

Read by Samuel West

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In A Shropshire Lad, A. E. Housman recreates a nostalgic world of lost love, lost youth, thwarted friendships, unfaithful girls, male bonding, untimely death and the uncertain glories of being a soldier. The poems deal with the exuberance of youth – its aspirations and disappointments, its naïve certainties and tragic mistakes. Though written in 1895, it struck a chord with the generation of young men who fought in World War I. It was said that every ‘Tommy’ had a copy in his knapsack. It has never been out of print.

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A.E. Housman: A Shropshire lad
Work length1:03:30
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
1887 From Clee to heaven the beacon burns
Track length1:30
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Track length0:39
THE RECRUIT: Leave your home behind, lad
Track length1:05
REVEILLE: Wake: the silver dusk returning
Track length1:08
Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers
Track length1:30
When the lad for longing sighs
Track length0:36
When smoke stood up from Ludlow
Track length1:16
'Farewell to barn and stack and tree'
Track length1:02
On moonlit heath and lonesome bank
Track length1:23
MARCH: The sun at noon to higher air
Track length1:01
On your midnight pallet lying
Track length0:42
When I watch the living meet
Track length0:45
When I was one-and-twenty
Track length0:45
There pass the careless people
Track length0:56
Look not in my eyes, for fear
Track length0:50
It nods and curtseys and recovers
Track length0:29
Twice a week the winter thorough
Track length0:35
Oh, when I was in love with you
Track length0:25
TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG
Track length1:24
Oh fair enough are sky and plain
Track length0:44
BREDON HILL: In summertime on Bredon
Track length1:31
The street sounds to the soldiers' tread
Track length0:37
The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair
Track length1:09
Say, lad, have you things to do?
Track length0:36
This time of year a twelvemonth past
Track length0:43
Along the fields as we came by
Track length0:56
'Is my team ploughing'
Track length1:25
THE WELSH MARCHES: High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam
Track length1:41
THE LENT LILY: 'Tis spring; come out to ramble
Track length0:48
Others, I am not the first
Track length0:51
On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble
Track length1:07
From far, from eve and morning
Track length0:34
If truth in hearts that perish
Track length0:49
THE NEW MISTRESS
Track length1:08
On the idle hill of summer
Track length0:48
White in the moon the long road lies
Track length0:51
As through the wild green hills of Wyre
Track length1:39
The winds out of the west land blow
Track length0:53
'Tis time, I think by Wenlock town
Track length0:39
Into my heart an air that kills
Track length0:31
In my own shire, if I was sad
Track length1:29
THE MERRY GUIDE: Once in the wind of morning
Track length2:23
THE IMMORTAL PART: When I meet the morning beam
Track length2:04
Shot? so quick, so clean an ending?
Track length1:33
If it chance your eye offend you
Track length0:27
Bring, in this timeless grave to throw
Track length1:07
THE CARPENTER'S SON: 'Here the hangman stops his cart'
Track length1:19
Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle
Track length1:22
Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly
Track length0:32
Clunton and Clunbury, Clungunford and Clun
Track length1:09
Loitering with a vacant eye
Track length1:05
Far in a western brookland
Track length0:47
THE TRUE LOVER: The lad came to the door at night
Track length1:34
With rue my heart is laden
Track length0:28
Westward on the high-hilled plains
Track length0:45
THE DAY OF BATTLE: 'Far I hear the bugle blow'
Track length0:46
You smile upon your friend to-day
Track length0:24
When I came last to Ludlow
Track length0:26
THE ISLE OF PORTLAND: The star-filled seas are smooth to-night
Track length0:42
Now hollow fires burn out to black
Track length0:26
HUGHLEY STEEPLE: The vane on Hughley steeple
Track length1:03
'Terence, this is stupid stuff'
Track length2:58
I Hoed and trenched and weeded
Track length0:40
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