This collection includes a poem which ends "I cheer a dead man's sweetheart /
The speaker of one poem in this collection asserts that "The tree of man was never quiet," and compares wind blowing through woods to the "gale of life" which affected an ancient Roman. Another poem in this collection recalls "the happy highways where" the speaker "went / and cannot come again" after asking "What are those blue remembered hills, / What spires, what farms are those?" This collection includes a poem which ends "I cheer a dead man's sweetheart / Never ask me whose," "Is my team ploughing," and begins with a poem about the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, "From Clee to heaven the beacon burns." Including "When I was one-and-twenty" and "To an athlete dying young," for 10 points, name this poetry collection by A. E. Housman.
The speaker of one poem in this collection asserts that "The tree of man was never quiet," and compares wind blowing through woods to the "gale of life" which affected an ancient Roman.
A Shropshire Lad