Oh Fair Enough Are Sky And Plain

A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman

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Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far:
Those are as beautiful again
That in the water are;The pools and rivers wash so clean
The trees and clouds and air,
The like on earth has never seen,
And oh that I were there.These are the thoughts I often think
As I stand gazing down
In act upon the cressy brink
To strip and dive and drown;But in the golden-sanded brooks
And azure meres I spy
A silly lad that longs and looks
And wishes he were I.
A. E. Housman
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A. E. Housman

1859 - 1936/EnglishAlfred Edward Housman, usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900. Their…

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