• 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
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Subjects in these quotes:

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

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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

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