A Shropshire Lad

~ Release by A. E. Housman read by Samuel West (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

CD 1
#TitleRatingLength
11887 From Clee to heaven the beacon burns
1:32
2Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
0:39
3THE RECRUIT: Leave your home behind, lad
1:05
4REVEILLE: Wake: the silver dusk returning
1:08
5Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers
1:30
6When the lad for longing sighs
0:37
7When smoke stood up from Ludlow
1:17
8'Farewell to barn and stack and tree'
1:03
9On moonlit heath and lonesome bank
1:24
10MARCH: The sun at noon to higher air
1:02
11On your midnight pallet lying
0:43
12When I watch the living meet
0:45
13When I was one - and - twenty
0:45
14There pass the careless people
0:56
15Look not in my eyes, for fear
0:50
16It nods and curtseys and recovers
0:30
17Twice a week the winter thorough
0:36
18Oh, when I was in love with you
0:25
19TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG
1:24
20Oh fair enough are sky and plain
0:45
21BREDON HILL: In summertime on Bredon
1:31
22The street sounds to the soldiers' tread
0:38
23The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair
1:09
24Say, lad, have you things to do
0:36
25This time of year a twelvemonth past
0:44
26Along the fields as we came by
0:57
27'Is my team ploughing'
1:25
28THE WELSH MARCHES: High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam
1:42
29THE LENT LILY: 'Tis spring; come out to ramble
0:48
30Others, I am not the first
0:51
31On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble
1:08
32From far, from eve and morning
0:35
33If truth in hearts that perish
0:50
34THE NEW MISTRESS
1:08
35On the idle hill of summer
0:48
36White in the moon the long road lies
0:51
37As through the wild green hills of Wyre
1:39
38The winds out of the west land blow
0:54
39'Tis time, I think by Wenlock town
0:39
40Into my heart an air that kills
0:31
41In my own shire, if I was sad
1:30
42THE MERRY GUIDE: Once in the wind of morning
2:23
43THE IMMORTAL PART: When I meet the morning beam
2:05
44Shot so quick, so clean an ending
1:34
45If it chance your eye offend you
0:27
46Bring, in this timeless grave to throw
1:07
47THE CARPENTER'S SON: 'Here the hangman stops his cart'
1:19
48Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle
1:23
49Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly
0:33
50Clunton and Clunbury, Clungunford and Clun
1:09
51Loitering with a vacant eye
1:05
52Far in a western brookland
0:47
53THE TRUE LOVER: The lad came to the door at night
1:35
54With rue my heart is laden
0:28
55Westward on the high - hilled plains
0:45
56THE DAY OF BATTLE: 'Far I hear the bugle blow'
0:47
57You smile upon your friend to - day
0:24
58When I came last to Ludlow
0:26
59THE ISLE OF PORTLAND: The star - filled seas are smooth to - night
0:42
60Now hollow fires burn out to black
0:26
61HUGHLEY STEEPLE: The vane on Hughley steeple
1:03
62'Terence, this is stupid stuff'
2:59
63I Hoed and trenched and weeded
0:43