• With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipt maiden And many a lightfoot lad. By brooks too broad for leaping The lightfoot boys are laid; The rose-lipt girls are sleeping In fields where roses fade.

  Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896)

  A. E. Housman
  British poet 1859-1936
  

  - +

   0

Check all quotes by A. E. Housman

Subjects in these quotes:

1. rose-lipt
2. lightfoot
3. sleeping
4. fields
5. girls
6. where

Similar authors

• Walter Savage Landor
  British poet 0
• Francis Quarles
  British poet 0
• Edward Young
  British poet 0
• Leigh Hunt
  British poet, essaywriter 0
• Dame Edith Sitwell
  British poet 0
• Alice Meynell
  British poet, writer 0
• Thomas Gray
  British poet 0
• Rupert Brooke
  British poet 0

With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipt maiden And many a lightfoot lad. By brooks too broad for leaping The lightfoot boys are laid; The rose-lipt girls are sleeping In fields where roses fade. by : A. E. Housman

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations