He would not stay for me, and who can wonder

A. E. Housman

He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?

He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.

I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder,

And went with half my life about my ways.

Poems by This Author

A Shropshire Lad XL by A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad, II by A. E. Housman
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

A Shropshire Lad, XIII by A. E. Housman
When I was one-and-twenty

A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI by A. E. Housman
White in the moon the long road lies

Loveliest of Trees by A. E. Housman
Loveliests of trees, the cherry now

Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough by A. E. Housman
Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough

Oh Who Is That Young Sinner by A. E. Housman
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists

To An Athlete Dying Young by A. E. Housman
The time you won your town the race

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He would not stay for me, and who can wonder

A. E. Housman

Poems by This Author

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