31. With Rue My Heart is Laden. A. E. Housman. Modern British Poetry

Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920.

A. E. Housman. 1859–

31. With Rue My Heart is Laden

WITH rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.

By brooks too broad for leaping	5
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.