This poem describes the title circumstance with the phrases "earth has stopped the ears" and "Eyes the shady night has shut.
This poem describes the title circumstance with the phrases "earth has stopped the ears" and "Eyes the shady night has shut." Its addressee is a "townsman of a stiller town" and will be admired by the "strengthless dead" who will flock to gaze at him. This work describes how "the name died before the man" after telling the title figure "you will not swell the rout." He also is said "to slip betimes away from fields where glory does not stay." Warning "early though the laurel grows, it withers quicker than the rose," it ends with the line "the garland briefer than a girl's." For 10 points, name this poem from A Shropshire Lad about a deceased runner, a work by A. E. Housman.
This poem describes the title circumstance with the phrases "earth has stopped the ears" and "Eyes the shady night has shut.
"To an Athlete Dying Young"