A Shropshire Lad XII: When I watch the living meet

A Shropshire Lad XII: When I watch the living meet

Original Text
A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1896): 19-20. del H68 S551896 Fisher Rare Book Library
1When I watch the living meet,
2    And the moving pageant file
3Warm and breathing through the street
4    Where I lodge a little while,
5If the heats of hate and lust
6    In the house of flesh are strong,
7Let me mind the house of dust
8    Where my sojourn shall be long.
9In the nation that is not
10    Nothing stands that stood before;
11There revenges are forgot,
12    And the hater hates no more;
13Lovers lying two and two
14    Ask not whom they sleep beside,
15And the bridegroom all night through
16    Never turns him to the bride.
Publication Start Year
1896
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1996-2000.
Rhyme
abab