'Is my team ploughing
by
A.E. Housman |
| ‘Is my team ploughing, |
| That I was used to drive |
| And hear the harness jingle |
When I was man alive?’
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| Ay, the horses trample, |
| The harness jingles now; |
| No change though you lie under |
The land you used to plough.
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| ‘Is football playing |
| Along the river shore, |
| With lads to chase the leather, |
Now I stand up no more?’
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| Ay, the ball is flying, |
| The lads play heart and soul; |
| The goal stands up, the keeper |
Stands up to keep the goal.
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| ‘Is my girl happy, |
| That I thought hard to leave, |
| And has she tired of weeping |
As she lies down at eve?’
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| Ay, she lies down lightly, |
| She lies not down to weep: |
| Your girl is well contented. |
Be still, my lad, and sleep.
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| ‘Is my friend hearty, |
| Now I am thin and pine, |
| And has he found to sleep in |
A better bed than mine?’
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| Yes, lad, I lie easy, |
| I lie as lads would choose; |
| I cheer a dead man’s sweetheart, |
Never ask me whose.
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A.E. Housman |
Classic Poems |
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[ Bredon Hill ] [ Clunton and Clunbury ] [ 'Is my team ploughing ] [ Parta Quies ] [ On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble; ] [ Loveliest of trees, the cherry now ] [ The Merry Guide ] [ 'Tis time, I think by Wenlock Town ] [ When I came last to Ludlow ] [ When I was one-and-twenty ] |
