One work in this collection commands a sleeper to wake stating, "when the journey's over there'll be time enough to sleep."
One work in this collection commands a sleeper to wake stating, "when the journey's over there'll be time enough to sleep." Another advises a soldier to "come…home a hero or come not home at all." A more famous work asks whether the speaker's friend has, "found to sleep in a better bed than mine." Some selections include Far in a Western Brookland and Bredon Hill, and many of the works in this collection mention Ludlow, including one with Mithradates. Another tells of ghosts circling an "early laureled head" finding "a garland briefer than a girl's." Containing such poems as Reveille, To An Athlete Dying Young, and Terrence, This is Stupid Stuff, FTP, identify this most famous poetry collection of A.E. Housman.
One work in this collection commands a sleeper to wake stating, "when the journey's over there'll be time enough to sleep."
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