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A. E. Housman

Alfred Edward Housman was born in Fockbury, Worcestershire, England, on March 26, 1859. A year later his family moved to nearby Bromsgrove, where Housman grew up and had his early...
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	FURTHER READING


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		Anna, Thy Charms by Robert Burns

		Be Near Me by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

		I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale

		I Do Not Love Thee by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

		Love's Secret by William Blake

		Never give all the heart by W. B. Yeats

		The More Loving One by W. H. Auden

		To His Coy Love by Michael Drayton

		To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

		What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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He would not stay for me, and who can wonder
by 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.

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