The Gladdest Thing » A. E. Housman http://thegladdestthing.com a poem a day, more or less Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:50:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Oh, When I Was In Love With You http://thegladdestthing.com/poems/oh-when-i-was-in-love-with-you http://thegladdestthing.com/poems/oh-when-i-was-in-love-with-you#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:02:14 +0000 Michelle McGinnis http://thegladdestthing.com/?p=185

Oh, when I was in love with you,
  Then I was clean and brave,
And miles around the wonder grew
  How well did I behave.

And now the fancy passes by,
  And nothing will remain,
And miles around they’ll say that I
  Am quite myself again.

— A. E. Housman

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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.

— A. E. Housman

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