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Poem by Alfred Edward Housman


A Shropshire Lad. 11. On Your Midnight Pallet Lying


On your midnight pallet lying,
  Listen, and undo the door:
Lads that waste the light in sighing
  In the dark should sigh no more;
Night should ease a lover's sorrow;
Therefore, since I go to-morrow,
  Pity me before.
 
In the land to which I travel,
  The far dwelling, let me say --
Once, if here the couch is gravel,
  In a kinder bed I lay,
And the breast the darnel smothers
Rested once upon another's
  When it was not clay.



Alfred Edward Housman


Alfred Edward Housman's other poems:
  1. More Poems. 15. Tarry, Delight; so Seldom Met
  2. A Shropshire Lad. 34. The New Mistress
  3. A Shropshire Lad. 17. Twice a Week the Winter Thorough
  4. More Poems. 17. Bells in Tower at Evening Toll
  5. More Poems. 32. Their Seed the Sowers Scatter


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