The speaker reminisces about "the time you won your town the race" in a poem that addresses "an athlete dying young."
The speaker of one poem in this collection considers his similarities with an ancient Roman after noting that "on Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble." Another poem in this collection imagines a conversation between a man who "cheers a dead man's sweetheart" and the dead man himself, who asks "Is my team ploughing?" The speaker reminisces about "the time you won your town the race" in a poem that addresses "an athlete dying young." For 10 points, name this poetry collection by A.E. Housman, about doomed and melancholy youths in the title English county.
The speaker of one poem in this collection considers his similarities with an ancient Roman after noting that "on Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble."
A Shropshire Lad