Poetry Monday!: "When I Was One-and-Twenty" by A.E. Housman

Here's "When I Was One-and-Twenty" (1896) by A.E. Housman (1859-1936).

For the rest of my playlist, click here. Past poems are:

1. "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2. "The Pulley" by George Herbert
3. "Harmonie du soir" by Charles Baudelaire
4. "Dirge Without Music" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
5. "Clancy of the Overflow" by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson
6. "Лотова жена" ("Lotova zhena", "Lot's wife") by Anna Akhmatova
7. "The Jumblies" by Edward Lear
8. "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe
9. "Les Djinns" by Victor Hugo
10. "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" by Alan Seeger

Comments

[XEleison]

That was a fun one! As one who is far older than two and twenty, I have to smirk at the dramatic angst of the young 😉

[Dan Schiavetta]

'Tis true, 'tis true.

Guy finally in charge of his own finances, learns the value of a dollar (or a pound).

Housman had a gift for rhyme, also.