When I came last to Ludlow
Amidst the moonlight pale,
Two friends kept step beside me,
Two honest lads and hale.

Now Dick lies long in the churchyard,
And Ned lies long in jail,
And I come home to Ludlow
Amidst the moonlight pale.

(C) Alfred Edward Housman
03/10/2020


Best Poems of Alfred Edward Housman

• Goodnight
• Xvi: How Clear, How Lovely Bright
• The Oracles
• Could Man Be Drunk Forever
• The True Lover
• The Lads In Their Hundreds
• I Hoed And Trenched And Weeded
• Reveille
• Xxviii: Now Dreary Dawns The Eastern Light
• The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux
• This Time Of Year A Twelvemonth Past
• Loveliest Of Trees, The Cherry Now
• Along The Field As We Came By
• Is My Team Ploughing
• Xl: Farewell To A Name And Number
• To An Athlete Dying Young
• Xxxvi: Revolution
• Xvii: Astronomy
• From Far, From Eve And Morning
• Xii: An Epitaph