" This poet describes "fields where glory does not stay" in a poem that notes that the laurel "withers quicker than the rose," and recalls "the time you won your town the race."
One of this man's poems imagines an object "hung with snow" that "stands about the woodland ride / Wearing white for Eastertide." That poem is found in a collection alongside a poem in which a wise man tells the narrator to "Give crowns and pounds and guineas / But not your heart away," and ends with the lament, "And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true." This poet describes "fields where glory does not stay" in a poem that notes that the laurel "withers quicker than the rose," and recalls "the time you won your town the race." For 10 points, name this English poet of "To An Athlete Dying Young" and "When I Was One and Twenty," which appeared in his collection A Shropshire Lad.
One of this man's poems imagines an object "hung with snow" that "stands about the woodland ride / Wearing white for Eastertide."
Alfred Edward Housman