The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild
It has devoured the little child.
The little child is unaware
It has been eaten by the bear.
It has devoured the little child.
The little child is unaware
It has been eaten by the bear.
The Grizzly Bear
About the poet
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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Here Dead We Lie
Here dead we lieBecause we did not choose
Diffugere Nives (Horace, Odes 4.7)
The snows are fled away, leaves on the shawsAnd grasses in the mead renew their birth,
It Is No Gift I Tender
It is no gift I tender,A loan is all I can;
The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux
The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowersStream from the hawthorn on the wind away,
Could Man Be Drunk Forever
Could man be drunk for everWith liquor, love, or fights,
