A Shropshire Lad

Other by A. E. Housman read by Samuel West

Tracklist

  • 1
    1887 From Clee to heaven the beacon burns
    1:31
  • 2
    Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
    0:39
  • 3
    THE RECRUIT: Leave your home behind, lad
    1:05
  • 4
    REVEILLE: Wake: the silver dusk returning
    1:08
  • 5
    Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers
    1:30
  • 6
    When the lad for longing sighs
    0:36
  • 7
    When smoke stood up from Ludlow
    1:16
  • 8
    'Farewell to barn and stack and tree'
    1:02
  • 9
    On moonlit heath and lonesome bank
    1:23
  • 10
    MARCH: The sun at noon to higher air
    1:01
  • 11
    On your midnight pallet lying
    0:42
  • 12
    When I watch the living meet
    0:45
  • 13
    When I was one - and - twenty
    0:45
  • 14
    There pass the careless people
    0:56
  • 15
    Look not in my eyes, for fear
    0:50
  • 16
    It nods and curtseys and recovers
    0:29
  • 17
    Twice a week the winter thorough
    0:35
  • 18
    Oh, when I was in love with you
    0:25
  • 19
    TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG
    1:24
  • 20
    Oh fair enough are sky and plain
    0:44
  • 21
    BREDON HILL: In summertime on Bredon
    1:30
  • 22
    The street sounds to the soldiers' tread
    0:37
  • 23
    The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair
    1:08
  • 24
    Say, lad, have you things to do
    0:36
  • 25
    This time of year a twelvemonth past
    0:43
  • 26
    Along the fields as we came by
    0:56
  • 27
    'Is my team ploughing'
    1:25
  • 28
    THE WELSH MARCHES: High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam
    1:41
  • 29
    THE LENT LILY: 'Tis spring; come out to ramble
    0:48
  • 30
    Others, I am not the first
    0:51
  • 31
    On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble
    1:07
  • 32
    From far, from eve and morning
    0:34
  • 33
    If truth in hearts that perish
    0:49
  • 34
    THE NEW MISTRESS
    1:08
  • 35
    On the idle hill of summer
    0:47
  • 36
    White in the moon the long road lies
    0:51
  • 37
    As through the wild green hills of Wyre
    1:39
  • 38
    The winds out of the west land blow
    0:53
  • 39
    'Tis time, I think by Wenlock town
    0:39
  • 40
    Into my heart an air that kills
    0:31
  • 41
    In my own shire, if I was sad
    1:29
  • 42
    THE MERRY GUIDE: Once in the wind of morning
    2:23
  • 43
    THE IMMORTAL PART: When I meet the morning beam
    2:04
  • 44
    Shot so quick, so clean an ending
    1:33
  • 45
    If it chance your eye offend you
    0:27
  • 46
    Bring, in this timeless grave to throw
    1:07
  • 47
    THE CARPENTER'S SON: 'Here the hangman stops his cart'
    1:19
  • 48
    Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle
    1:22
  • 49
    Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly
    0:32
  • 50
    Clunton and Clunbury, Clungunford and Clun
    1:08
  • 51
    Loitering with a vacant eye
    1:05
  • 52
    Far in a western brookland
    0:46
  • 53
    THE TRUE LOVER: The lad came to the door at night
    1:34
  • 54
    With rue my heart is laden
    0:28
  • 55
    Westward on the high - hilled plains
    0:45
  • 56
    THE DAY OF BATTLE: 'Far I hear the bugle blow'
    0:46
  • 57
    You smile upon your friend to - day
    0:24
  • 58
    When I came last to Ludlow
    0:26
  • 59
    THE ISLE OF PORTLAND: The star - filled seas are smooth to - night
    0:42
  • 60
    Now hollow fires burn out to black
    0:26
  • 61
    HUGHLEY STEEPLE: The vane on Hughley steeple
    1:03
  • 62
    'Terence, this is stupid stuff'
    2:58
  • 63
    I Hoed and trenched and weeded
    0:43

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