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Last Poems

Last Poems was the last of the two volumes of poems which A. E. Housman published during his lifetime. Of the 42 poems there, seventeen were given titles, a greater proportion than in his previous collection, A Shropshire Lad . Although it was not quite so popular with composers, the majority of the poems there have been set to music.


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“I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.”

Source: Last Poems

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