Poem by Alfred Edward Housman

More Poems. 8. Give Me a Land of Boughs in Leaf

Give me a land of boughs in leaf,
        A land of trees that stand;
Where trees are fallen, there is grief;
        I love no leafless land.


Alas, the country whence I fare,
        It is where would stay;
And where I would not, it is there
        That I shall be for aye.


And one remembers, and one forgets,
        But ’tis not found again,
Not though they hale in crimsoned nets
        The sunset from the main.

1. Additional Poems. 11a. They Shall Have Breath that Never Were
2. Last Poems. 21. The Fairies Break Their Dances
3. Last Poems. 19. In Midnights of November
4. More Poems. 29. From the Wash the Laundress Sends
5. Additional Poems. 16. Some Can Gaze and not Be Sick

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