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Poem by Alfred Edward Housman


Additional Poems. 10. Oh on My Breast in Days Hereafter


Oh on my breast in days hereafter
        Light the earth should lie,
Such weight to bear is now the air,
        So heavy hangs the sky.



Alfred Edward Housman


Alfred Edward Housman's other poems:
  1. More Poems. 29. From the Wash the Laundress Sends
  2. More Poems. 28. He, Standing Hushed, a Pace or Two Apart
  3. More Poems. 37. I Did Not Lose My Heart in Summer’s Even
  4. Last Poems. 33. When the Eye of Day Is Shut
  5. A Shropshire Lad. 41. In My Own Shire, if I Was Sad


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